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How I Live Now

2013

Kevin Macdonald

Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay ...

5.4

3,100

Thriller. Drama. Romance Fifteen year old Elizabeth is an American girl from NYC on holiday in the English countryside with her family who suddenly finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as the Third World War breaks out.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Wisely sticks to its protagonist’s p.o.v. while avoiding a longer view of the calamitous events around her, making up in emotional immediacy what it lacks in broad dramatic sweep."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"What starts as potentially interesting apocalyptic speculative fiction devolves into dreary sub-'Hunger Games' survivalism and banal teen romance."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic anxiety, a bit like 'Survivors' on 70s TV: a world of farmhouses, Land Rovers and underground bunkers. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"As sun-dappled infatuation abruptly crashes into post-apocalyptic survival, Mr. Macdonald struggles to balance a nebulous narrative on tentpole moments of rich emotional resonance."	NEU
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Imagine a Judy Blume rewrite of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road', and you'll end up somewhere in the ashen yet uplifting vicinity of 'How I Live Now'. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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