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Lilya 4-Ever (2003) Rank 3 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Lilya 4-Ever (2003) a score of 3.0923 out of 4
based on (79) reviews
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Excellent
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Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for TV Guide (Ken Fox)TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Akinshina and Bogucharskij are remarkable together, and Moodysson once again demonstrates a sophisticated visual skill matched only by his innate understanding of the adolescent heart. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Village Voice (J. Hoberman)Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Forget "Irreversible," this is the season's most piercingly feel-bad movie. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Stephen Holden)New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Both an archetypal case study and a personal drama whose spunky central character you come to care about so deeply that you want to cry out a warning at each step toward her ruination. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Empire Magazine (--)Empire Magazine (--)
...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Empire Magazine (--)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Akinshina and Bogucharskij are remarkable together, and Moodysson once again demonstrates a sophisticated visual skill matched only by his innate understanding of the adolescent heart. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
This isn't an easy film -- only a memorable one. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for BBC (Tom Dawson)BBC (Tom Dawson)
Moodysson has an impressive ability to show the world from the perspective of children, and to elicit naturalistic performances from his youthful actors. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at BBC (Tom Dawson)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for iofilm.co.uk (The Wolf)iofilm.co.uk (The Wolf)
For a film that is dealing with front line despair, it is remarkably uplifting. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at iofilm.co.uk (The Wolf)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
The film's achievement ... is to bring us as deeply as anyone since Japan's great Kenji Mizoguchi has into the mind and heart of a woman who, culturally as well as economically, is too easily checked off as a commodity. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Socially revealing and artistically creative, both coldly realistic and infused with compassion for its heroine and her youth culture. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
Akinshina, a gorgeous and extraordinarily poised young actress, can switch in a flash from wounded kid to jaded know-it-all. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
You'll see superb acting by two teens. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Lukas Moodysson, a young Swedish director, crafts a stunner of a film out of familiar turf. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Maybe the movie sounds like a drab and worthy slog through misery, but it's alive, it feels true, and it got to me. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
By the end of the film, our hearts will burn and break for Lilya. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Newsday (--)Newsday (--)
Grim but honest, and young Oksana Akinshina is glorious. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Newsday (--)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Cinema-Scene.com (David Perry)Cinema-Scene.com (David Perry)
...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Cinema-Scene.com (David Perry)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for ReelMovieCritic.com (Lee Shoquist)ReelMovieCritic.com (Lee Shoquist)
...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at ReelMovieCritic.com (Lee Shoquist)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boston Herald (James Verniere)Boston Herald (James Verniere)
...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Boston Herald (James Verniere)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Kvikmyndir.com (--)Kvikmyndir.com (--)
...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Kvikmyndir.com (--)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Seldom have the movies given us a young actress as appealing as Oksana Akinshina, or presented a character as real as the one she plays in Lilya 4-Ever . ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Times (Erik Lundegaard)Seattle Times (Erik Lundegaard)
Stark and unblinking. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Seattle Times (Erik Lundegaard)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Terrific filmmaking, but it's hard to leave Moodysson's picture without feeling much of anything except hopelessness. Utterly. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Doesn't derive its power from the turning wheels of plot suspense but from the simple act of looking and not blinking. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
Riveting. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The movie, written and directed by Lukas Moodysson, has the directness and clarity of a documentary, but allows itself touches of tenderness and grief. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Hartford Courant (--)Hartford Courant (--)
...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Hartford Courant (--)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Examiner (Jeffrey M. Anderson)San Francisco Examiner (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Akinshina brings to mind the extraordinary work of Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver . ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)
Lilya 4-Ever gives us a glorious, heart-wrenching debut performance in the lead, as auspicious as any in the history of cinema. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
[Moodysson] dives into the soul of a 16-year-old Estonian girl and tears you apart. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)
It's Moodysson's dark sense of humour to make [Lilya's] heaven the hell of merely poverty and insurmountable ennui. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Film Freak Central (Walter Chaw)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
I read of thousands of women from Eastern Europe who are lured into virtual slavery. I hope some of their clients will attend this movie, even if for the wrong reasons, and see what they are responsible for. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Why pay eight bucks to see this horrifying and sad film about the sort of girl you'd pass on the street without giving her a thought? Because, improbably, it says that life is worth living. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Salon.com (Charles Taylor)Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Not without its own bleak integrity. But the movie wipes you out and leaves you with nothing, not even the feeling of exaltation that can be present in the most tragic works of art. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)
What it became is essentially one long free-fall from destitution to despair. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Film Threat (Rich Cline)Film Threat (Rich Cline)
Amazingly realistic and engaging drama about society punctuated with both humor and grittiness. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at Film Threat (Rich Cline)
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) scores a combined 2.52 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
a despairing movie that you can't look away from, though you'll wish you could. ...read the complete Lilya 4-Ever movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
 
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Lilya 4-Ever (2003) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Avg Critic Score:
3.0923
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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