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How I Live Now
Directed by
Kevin Macdonald
R
2013
1h 41m
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6.4
66%
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An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
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Cast of How I Live Now
Saoirse Ronan
Daisy Ryback
George MacKay
Eddie
Tom Holland
Isaac
Harley Bird
Piper
Danny McEvoy
Joe
Anna Chancellor
Aunt Penn
Corey Johnson
Consular Official
Darren Morfitt
Sergeant
Sabrina Dickens
Guerilla Soldier Girlfriend
Stella Gonet
Mrs. McEvoy
Des McAleer
Major McEvoy
Natasha Jones
Woman in Truck
Sophie Stanton
Woman in Truck
Nav Sidhu
Checkpoint Soldier
Amy Dawson
Beaten Woman
Mark Stanley
Chasing Man 1
Paul Ronan
Chasing Man 2
How I Live Now Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
How I Live Now offers adolescents a lovely vision of holistic healing in the same countryside.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
For much of its running time the movie is grab-you-by-the-back-of-the-neck immediate; in its last third particularly, the bite-your-lip moments of suspense and tension mount to the extent that you may well draw blood.
Associated Press
Jocelyn Noveck
There's a clear message here: Sometimes it takes extraordinary circumstances to realize it, but we all have the capacity to shed our petty concerns and focus on the greater good.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
How I Live Now manages to fuse a teen love story, steeped in alienation and hurt, with a near-future nightmare thriller.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"How I Live Now" makes World War III seem boring, which would hardly seem possible.
Detroit News
Tom Long
"How I Live Now" is uncomfortably easy to believe.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"How I Live Now" is a showcase for Ronan to prove that she's capable of more than pristine, angelic roles.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The title, "How I Live Now," suggests a certain distance, and that's rigorously maintained in the movie.
CinemaBlend
Kristy Puchko
The story offers an intriguing and unique angle on a classic YA theme.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
[A]rguably delves into country matters more deeply than any precursor in cinema.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
There's a lot left unsaid in How I Live Now - but it's unsaid with unusual force.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
This adaptation of Meg Rosoff's young adult novel hasn't much to recommend it except the presence of Saoirse Ronan in the leading role.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Just because virtually any story can be told through the eyes of a solipsistic teen girl doesn't mean that it should be.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Mr. Macdonald struggles to balance a nebulous narrative on tentpole moments of rich emotional resonance.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The production feels tentative and underpopulated: I thought not only of Katniss Everdeen but of the marvelous pandemonium in Danny Boyle's zombie epic "28 Days Later."
NPR
Mark Jenkins
As Macdonald deftly presents a subjective viewpoint, Ronan endows her overly schematic character with authentic desire, resentment and willfulness.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
I'm not sure whom this movie's for, really.
The Dissolve
Tasha Robinson
As Daisy's situation worsens, she becomes progressively less clear, specific, and interesting as a character, and flattens into a generic striver, except when she's being nasty.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
A frosty-eyed, imperturbable actress in "Atonement," "Hanna" and "The Host," Ronan is at least able to sell Daisy's new focus while the movie loses its own.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
Death creeps into the movie, like an invisible wave of radiation from a detonated nuke, and some of the imagery owes more to Cormac McCarthy than to Stephenie Meyer.
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