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Modern Life Is Rubbish

2017

Daniel Jerome Gill

Josh Whitehouse, Freya Mavor, Ian Hart, Jessie Cave ...

5.1

49

Comedy. Romance Brought together by their shared love of music, ten years on Liam and Natalie are at breaking point. Making the difficult decision to separate, they must split their prized music library. But the soundtrack that defined their relationship keeps pulling them back together.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] lacks the hummably acerbic insight of the best music it namechecks"	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"A uselessly nostalgic movie (...) [It] is an advertisement for male emotional immaturity"	NEG
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"Contrived but poignant"	NEU
United States	Tatiana Craine Village Voice	"[A] familiar, cliché-heavy script offers a twee jaunt down memory lane"	NEG
United States	Adam Graham Detroit News	"Whitehouse and Mavor bring an ease and relatability to their characters and their relationship."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Flaccid and cliched (...) The spark of real originality, real romance, is lacking (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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