A frustrating watch, mostly because a couple of poor choices make this film way worse than it should be. It probably will get nominated for best acting, and that’s well deserved, as the two leads are excellent. A lot has been said about the first thirty minutes, and while I agree that it’s a great showcase for the director and Vanessa Kirby, it’s a scene that didn’t need to be there, let alone be thirty minutes. Why? Well, it’s dramatically unengaging, nothing interesting or extraordinary happens until the last two minutes, and as a result it tanks the pacing of the rest of the film. Setting that scene aside, the film quickly develops into a sufficient, albeit fairly predictable drama. I think it would’ve been creatively more interesting to focus on the conflict of grieving internally vs our human need for blaming someone, which is only briefly explored in the scenes with Ellen Burstyn. This whole family grievance plot has been done to death, and the film fails to find a unique angle on it. As for the characters, they do have arcs, but it should’ve been handled more efficiently. Dramatically, it would’ve been so much interesting to delve a little more into the characters before the thirty minute scene, so that we’d have a good sense of who these people are before they get depressed. All in all, it feels like a film that should’ve had a few more revisions during preproduction. 4/10

A movie that plays on my emotions when I wanted a movie that plays on my love of good movies.

The acting by Vanessa Kirby was amazing! I think she really captures the grief of a parent really well. I think the film does a good part in showing that people grieve in different ways, and that can cause people to drift away from each other. I would've liked Shia LaBeouf's character fleshed out more, but I understand this is supposed to be the mom's story for the most part. I think the film takes a detour with the final climax towards the end, but overall pretty good.

Ok i like the movie,but why no one cares about the father pain? Is like nobody gives a shit about the father pain.