The Age of Adaline Reviews
Despite a cold and off-putting third-person narration, Adaline is a film that eventually will melt the most of cynical of cinemagoers' hearts.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2024
There’s a genuine sweetness and charm in this fantasy romance that sweeps me off my feet. Lively does a fine job carrying this film with her beauty and grace.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2024
A silly movie that takes itself too seriously.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2022
"The Age of Adaline" greatly works as meet-in-the-middle compromise date movie that easily works for women and doesn't have enough really awful parts to scare away the men.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2022
Going from offbeat art-house to high-end mainstream with lush production values that would have been at home in the 50s, director Lee Toland Krieger approaches the material in much the same manner as Adaline lives her life.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2022
It's the performances of Lively and Burstyn, along with a compelling turn from Ford as the man who must confront his past while safeguarding his son's future, which are Age of Adaline's greatest strength
| Oct 4, 2021
A silly movie that requires an almost impossible level of suspension of disbelief but somehow the metaphysical melodrama, with its lovely design and strong performances over comes the ridiculous plotlines to become an almost timeless romance.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2021
The excessively science-fiction-steeped setup only undermines the parts that work.
| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020
The joy of Lively's performance is that she creates a sympathetic and appealing character out of Adaline.
| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020
Gorgeous on a visual basis, but remains empty behind a heavily contrived plot, preposterous scientific mumbo jumbo, and unabashed romantic exaggeration.
| Original Score: C | Jul 15, 2020
One minute I'm baffled and the next minute I'm quite literally falling asleep.
| Apr 28, 2020
This movie is so bizarre.
| Apr 28, 2020
It is a film with a good technical polishing that takes great care to be an elegant production, but has much less success in achieving a content that at least approaches the level of its form. [Full Review in Spanish]
| Apr 23, 2020
Ross's voice resonates in our heads with the same intensity as it did in Dominik's film, capturing the essence of the story with its kind, direct and serious tone. Unfortunately, the images say otherwise. [Full Review in Spanish]
| Apr 23, 2020
The unhurried storytelling matches Adaline's endless life, making this a respectable date movie.
| Aug 15, 2019
The audience is certainly offered plenty of beautiful bone structure featured in languid close-ups of the two leads, along with jewel-like, memorable moments of acting prowess from the older actors.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2019
Takes its premise and squanders it on a run-of-the-mill romance that doesn't have the courage to tackle its themes head on.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2019
The plot is both ridiculous and overly convenient, stealing screentime from the deserving thorough period production design.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2019
The film's greatest gift might be that it harbors one of Ford's best performances in years. You can never tell these days how invested he'll be in any given project, but Krieger must have the magic touch.
| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 14, 2019
I thought Lively was strong enough in the role and the chemistry between all was so good I enjoyed it.
| Original Score: B+ | Mar 12, 2019