Review Roundup: Blake Lively Stars in THE AGE OF ADALINE

Blake Lively stars in the new fantasy-drama THE AGE OF ADALINE. The film was directed by Lee Toland Krieger, who is best known for his work on THE VICIOUS KIND and CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER.

The story follows Adaline, a girl whose life is changed forever after an accident stops her from aging indefinitely. After nearly eight decades of pulling away from people, Adaline meets a young man who reignites her PASSION for life and the world around her.

THE AGE OF ADALINE stars Blake Lively, Harrison Ford, Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, and Ellen Burstyn.

Let's see what the critics had to say!

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The filmmakers try to insist that time weighs heavily on Adaline, but there's little in J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz's script that suggests that the years have left her with much more than an expansive wardrobe and a knack for both languages and Trivial Pursuit. Far too often here, Adaline's parade of period dresses, coats and handbags stand in for the richness of human experience.

Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair: THE AGE OF ADALINE is a curious creation. Both earnest romantic melodrama and science-fiction thought experiment, it's an elegant hodgepodge of tones and tropes, sometimes heavy-handed, sometimes silly, BUT ALWAYS admirably sure of purpose.

Justin Chang, Variety: ...it's a vehicle for Lively's expressive yet underplayed performance, the sort of quietly commanding star turn that makes you wonder why this performer (still best known for "Gossip Girl") hasn't received more bigscreen opportunities over THE PAST decade

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture: The tepid romance is supposed to structure everything else, so the film feels disjointed - a series of good, sometimes even great scenes in search of an organizing principle. You walk out of the film pleased, but unmoved.

Kyle Smith New York Post: The film is as tender and endearing as a lamb, a lamb at rest in a fragrant atmosphere. It's a film that has a determined, unironic respect for things past.

Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian: Age of Adaline - while frequently preposterous - has just enough pixie dust that it ought to find a fan base among romantic types.

Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter: Whatever its flaws, THE AGE OF ADALINE proves that he (Krieger) can work effectively on a bigger canvas, and that Lively can hold the center of a movie with her stillness - promising omens for their futures.

Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly: Lively looks fantastic in every era's fashion as it passes, and she does a nice job of conveying Adaline's old-world diction and reserve; there's no Gossip in this girl.

Katherine Pushkar, New York Daily News: This is pretty schmaltz done right. Michiel Huisman's Ellis has earnest energy. Ellen Burstyn as Adaline's daughter proves an 80-year-old face touched only by life and time can be beautiful. But this is a Blake Lively picture, and if you can live with her affected delivery, you'll be totally satisfied.

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo: Lively really is the whole show here, and she carries the film very well. She really is an extraordinary beauty (there were audible gasps whenever she donned evening wear) but she's also able to convey a degree of world-weariness that suits the character and gives the film the extra push it needs.

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