Marti Noxon's dramedy falls prey to the old AF story of wise male savior rescuing troubled girl.

| Feb 26, 2021

Ultimately the most resonant message To the Bone has to offer is that there is no one certain way to heal from anorexia, and no one right way to tell stories about it either.

| Jul 21, 2017

A fitfully successful exploration of anorexia that plays like a slightly above-average 온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 20, 2017

Though To the Bone isn't quite enjoyable to watch, it's acted well and is, in its depiction of this all-too-pervasive disorder, essential.

| Jul 17, 2017

The performances are mostly excellent, Collins' above all.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 17, 2017

The script knows that telling stories from personal experience, even with good intentions, is not enough to prevent those stories from being dangerous when they reach other people.

| Jul 14, 2017

It's certainly realistic that the young woman may not be sufficiently self-aware to know why she puts great effort into remaining a virtual skeleton. But there are other sufferers in the story, and all are painted even more generically.

| Jul 14, 2017

Collins' performance is certainly the main attraction here, but Noxon has rounded out the rest of her cast with equally as impressive supporting turns from performers as diverse as Reeves, Retta, Alex Sharp, Preston, and Lili Taylor.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 14, 2017

[A] smart and even funny story of a young woman nearing the bottom of her anorexia.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 14, 2017

There are aspects of this approach that are refreshing. Noxon clearly knows the territory. But the end result is confusing and unfocused.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2017

This is a queasy Netflix film about anorexia whose good intentions are undermined by its aura of starvation chic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2017

Collins commits herself physically to the role while adeptly slinging Noxon's caustic one-liners, and Reeves, as Ellen's doctor, strikes the right note between genuine sympathy and a sobering sense of where she might be headed.

| Jul 13, 2017

For young people suffering, the movie offers both hope and clarity; for more experienced viewers, it may come off a little too much like Girl, Interrupted through a Lifetime lens.

| Original Score: B | Jul 13, 2017

At the end of the film, precisely nothing useful or insightful is said about anorexia or anything else.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 13, 2017

If there are few surprises along the way, there are equally few easy answers or miraculous breakthroughs.

| Jul 13, 2017

Without judging or romanticizing, Noxon presents a heartfelt and heartbreaking portrait of a 20-year-old girl trying to cope with the challenges of growing up by obsessively restricting calories.

| Jul 13, 2017

Somewhere in trying to externalize a character's problems through corny and ham-fisted subplots, it loses her altogether.

| Original Score: C | Jul 13, 2017

[A] personal, finely realized comedy-drama.

| Jul 12, 2017

A young Los Angeles woman battles anorexia in Marti Noxon's emotional yet clear-eyed film that responsibly tackles its topic with good spirits and plenty of empathy.

| Jul 12, 2017

One of the film's great qualities is its casualness and willingness to be simply human and to not let sociological politics dominate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2017