The issues here couldn’t be more pertinent. But Knoll’s thriller is a sleek but pretty crude example of processing PTSD for Netflix and chilling...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2022

Luckiest Girl Alive keeps telling us that we are watching a biting depiction of sublimated grief and rage, but the movie bounces along at such a weird pace that nothing can sink in or register as more than garish, tossed-off plot detail.

| Oct 10, 2022

As formulaic as it is, the story nonetheless confronts the persistence of guilt over past questionable behavior and how people struggle to deal with it, even long after the fact.

| Oct 8, 2022

Luckiest Girl Alive falls short of its promise, a reminder that, however ironic the title is intended to be, fortune tends to favor the bold.

| Oct 8, 2022

Well written, but difficult to watch...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2022

Small edits could have propelled the film into a dark drama instead of something resembling a PSA.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 7, 2022

As a book, Luckiest Girl Alive was frequently compared to Gone Girl. The same isn’t likely to happen with the movie version, evidencing the difference a strong adaptation and director can make.

| Oct 7, 2022

Kunis’s alpha female appears at once ferocious and like a conspicuous sham. (Imagine Sheryl Sandberg as a “Scooby-Doo” villain.)

| Original Score: B- | Oct 7, 2022

Falls into the trap of trying too hard to capture not just the book’s flashback-heavy plot but also its distinctive voice.

| Oct 7, 2022

[Exploits] both school shootings and rape trauma for a self-actualization narrative that ultimately ends with Ani finding value not in the release of her repressed emotions through this writing, but in the shallow achievement of viral fame.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 7, 2022

Girl isn't a great movie or even a good one, really, but it has Kunis kicking her stiletto through a taxi-cab window and quoting William Faulkner, and it's right there in your queue.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 7, 2022

No one, especially not the viewer, is lucky.

| Original Score: 6.1/10 | Oct 7, 2022

The story it ultimately tells is an empty, self-serving fantasy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 7, 2022

It’s up to Kunis to carry the film, and for the most part she does.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 7, 2022

A distant, atonal film that feels more slippery than evocative.

| Oct 7, 2022

Kunis is a better actress here than anyone has ever asked her to be. (Maybe after this, people will start asking.)

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2022

Utilizing a traditionally glossy, chick-lit-retrofitted heroine as a mouthpiece for somber, serious activist sentiments isn’t so much provocative as just downright batty.

| Oct 7, 2022