‘It Ends With Us’ Review: Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni Deliver In Nuanced Feature Take Of Colleen Hoover Bestseller
deadline.comThe first feature adaptation of a novel by author Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us, is hitting the screen this weekend in what is expected to be a major crowd pleaser for her legions of female fans.
The movie, aptly in the hands of Jane the Virgin actor-turned-Five Feet Apart filmmaker Justin Baldoni, who also stars here, captures the emotional complexities of relationships mired in domestic abuse and why women decide to stay — or not.
Similar to how Baldoni was able to capture the fragile romanticism between a young couple stricken with chronic diseases in $93M-grossing Five Feet Apart, the director, together with screenwriter Christy Hall, is able to lift the particulars of passions which are damaged and toxic off the pages and onto a bigger canvas, while stepping into the headspace of many women who’ve experienced plights such as Lily Bloom’s, portrayed by Blake Lively in what is one of the Gossip Girl alum’s most serious performances.
What Baldoni gets right, just like the novel, is relaying a tale of how many relationships, which begin with the utmost love, can unfortunately sour.
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