Skilfully adapted for the screen from her 2015 novel of the same name, Jessica Knoll has brought contemporary concerns alive in a harrowingly thrilling film.

| Oct 4, 2023

This movie just doesn't quite work...It felt like a very fashionable Hallmark movie.

| Original Score: 6.5 | Aug 10, 2023

Luckiest Girl Alive is able to tie everything up with a neat bow at the end because nothing was ever unpacked to begin with. This latest Netflix Original is sensationalized trauma packaged neatly for the true-crime-obsessed crowd.

| Jul 24, 2023

Some tighter editing, a deeper script and short run-time would've worked in the movies favour, but what we were delivered was a tough yet enjoyable watch that does what it says on the tin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2023

Much of the film almost comes across as a forgettable CW drama. ... [Mila] Kunis is certainly a talented actress, but the material for this film was simply not endearing enough to make it memorable for its audience.

| Jun 16, 2023

Luckiest Girl Alive delivers a heartbreakingly real feeling story about just how coldly the world can be to someone who has survived traumatic events.

| Jan 4, 2023

Seen as a clarifying film about the silences that usually surround abuse or as a shooter elegy –whichever it is, affirmative capitalism is the one that ends up triumphant– what remains of Luckiest girl alive is the idea of ​​something uncomfortably bland.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 5, 2022

Mila Kunis is good but not good enough to make this movie anything better than average entertainment.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 20, 2022

there’s a decent film in here somewhere about trauma’s ripple effects and people’s coping mechanisms. ... [But] As a thriller, the jolts just aren’t there, and ginning up those elements saps Ani’s journey of emotional weight.

| Oct 20, 2022

Luckiest Girl Alive throws a miniseries worth of ideas into a lacklustre movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2022

Messily (and almost irresponsibly) waffles between tones, and would perhaps have benefited from embracing the black comedy genre it dives into at first... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 17, 2022

It all adds up. But the result isn't always more, sometimes it adds up to less. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2022

For Kunis, “Luckiest Girl Alive” marks her career acting zenith. In her performance that’s not all that far removed from her Oscar-nominated turn in the equally unnerving “The Black Swan,” Kunis never attempts to soften or sand-down Ani’s rougher edges.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2022

The film has a somewhat discursive start before coming together to deliver a very potent second half.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2022

Some of the sequences are difficult to watch at times. But with great storytelling and exceptional performances from both Kunis and Aurelia, it is definitely a film worth watching.

| Oct 14, 2022

Sometimes irritatingly confusing and redundant. Yet it remains engrossing and, in the end, compelling, even if the way it wraps things up is rather obvious and self-congratulatory.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 13, 2022

After a chaotic opening stanza, Luckiest Girl Alive has plenty going for it.

| Oct 12, 2022

These are important issues and, even if the narrative is drawn out, director Mike Barker's approach has both gripping tension and resonant commentary that deserves to strike a nerve.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 12, 2022

This emotionally taxing film is likely to spark debate about the portrayal of both sexual and school violence and its repercussions, and Kunis' compelling lead performance drives that portrayal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2022

Amidst the rash of films using school shootings as a plot driver, this shameful exploitation of it doubles down with another horrific personal trauma all so its lead character can finally learn how to write something meaningful for the New York Times

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 12, 2022