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It Ends with Us

Name: It Ends with Us
Released: 2024-08-07T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 7.0

We break the pattern or the pattern breaks us.

2024 • 131 min • ★ 7.0 (2,045) • Released

Drama Romance

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

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Original title: It Ends with Us
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: $55,000,000
Revenue: $351,441,044

Reviews & Ratings 6

snorkyd

Sep 24, 2026 · via TMDB

**A Masterclass in Emotion: Heartbreaking, Relatable, and Beautifully Acted** It Ends with Us is a deeply moving, intense, and incredibly faithful adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel. The film handles a very heavy, sensitive subject with immense care, perfectly capturing the heartbreaking complexities of toxic relationships and generational trauma. Blake Lively’s performance is nothing short of outstanding. She delivers an emotionally raw performance as Lily Bloom, capturing both her vulnerability and her strength. Her brilliant chemistry with both male leads brings the contrasting dynamics of those relationships to life, making her conflicting emotions feel raw, authentic, and deeply relatable. The film does an excellent job of showing how easily someone can be pulled into a toxic relationship, making Lily's choices feel incredibly real and painful. Justin Baldoni is excellent as Ryle, playing him with a charm that makes his sudden shifts into aggression all the more terrifying. Meanwhile, Brandon Sklenar brings a warm, comforting presence as Atlas, offering a perfect contrast to the tension of the central storyline. It's a beautifully shot, intense drama that handles a heavy subject with care. Backed by an excellent soundtrack that heightens the emotional stakes, Lily’s ultimate journey toward breaking the cycle feels deeply earned and profoundly inspiring. Whether you loved the book or are experiencing the story for the first time, this is a powerful piece of cinema that stays with you long after the credits roll.

moviepoptime

Nov 9, 2024 · via TMDB

It Ends With Us, directed by Justin Baldoni and based on Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel, explores the complexities of love and domestic abuse through the eyes of Lily Bloom (Blake Lively). The film captures Lily's journey from a hopeful flower shop owner to a woman facing the harsh realities of her relationship with Ryle (Justin Baldoni), a charming but abusive neurosurgeon. My Experience: Watching It Ends With Us was both impactful and frustrating. The cinematography was beautiful, and Lively delivered a nuanced performance that conveyed Lily's internal struggles effectively. However, I felt the film struggled with pacing and often leaned too heavily on melodrama, which detracted from its emotional weight. The portrayal of domestic violence was raw and unsettling, but at times it felt like it glossed over the deeper implications of such trauma. While I appreciated the film’s attempt to address serious themes, the resolution felt overly neat and left me questioning its message about healing and forgiveness. Overall, It Ends With Us left me with mixed feelings; it was visually engaging and thought-provoking but ultimately fell short of delivering a satisfying emotional payoff. If you enjoyed my experience, then check out the <a href="https://moviepoptime.com/drama/it-ends-with-us/" target="_blank">Latest Movie Reviews</a>.

NikolaiOS

Sep 25, 2024 · via TMDB

Amazing movie, I really like it. It is outstanding.

r96sk

Aug 15, 2024 · via TMDB

★ 8.0

I found 'It Ends with Us' to be largely great, though the way it ends does make me question how I feel about it. The performances of Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni (just me who thinks he looks a touch like Runar from 'Ice Age'? ...), Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate - heck, even Isabela Ferrer and Alex Neustaedter (iffy likeness aside) - are stellar. I sensed a lot of chemistry between Lively & Baldoni and Lively & Sklenar, which is impressive to succeed in that area twice. Pace-wise the movie jumps along nicely, all the other major elements like editing, music and whatever are all well done and are only plus points. However, the conclusion disappoints a bit. I do think it just about regains its footing to produce a positive ending, though how it gets there by wrapping up the relationship between Lively's Lily and Baldoni's Atlas left me feeling a bit uneasy. As did a few other scenes, though they were of course as intended. Amusing that I'm pretty sure I was the only dude (or at least one of a few) in a packed cinema watching this. Upon exiting, visually I kinda felt like Will Smith in that famous 'The Pursuit of Happyness' (which I still haven't seen btw, gotta get on that) crowd scene - only surrounded by women. Bit awkward, I can't lie. "Will watch anything!" evidently leads me astray sometimes!

CinemaSerf

Aug 15, 2024 · via TMDB

★ 6.0

"Lily" (Blake Lively) is supposed to give an eulogy at her father's funeral, but she can't. Even with her mother (Amy Morton) there and in the full glare of a packed church, she cannot find five good things to say about the man. Quickly we learn - through some flashbacks - just why that is, and just why she's grown up to be a bit of a romantic. Then she encounters neuro-surgeon "Ryle" (Justin Baldoni) and there is instant chemistry. She then opens a long-dreamed of flower shop and a stranger walks in seeking a job. Guess what? She's "Allysa" (Jenny Slate) who just happens to be the sister of her enigmatic stranger. Maybe they can make a go of things? Well a dinner one evening brings her face to face with "Atlas" (Brandon Sklenar) and that takes us back down the path of retrospection as it turns out that in her younger days, she (Isabela Ferrer) has met this vagrant (Alex Neustaedter) and they's had quite an intense relationship until her father (Kevin McKidd) caught them, and - well you can use your imagination. When "Ryle" catches them chatting, he suspects the worst and that proceeds to cause his behaviour to materially change the dynamics as matters take a series of quite unpleasant turns. Now, quite why anyone thought this was a film worth making eluded me. Sure the subject matter is serious, but this plodding drama just takes way too long to get going and then when it might to become more compelling it runs out of steam. The camerawork pays far too much superficial attention to the undercooked character of "Lily" and the writing all too often resorts to power-ballad mode when the story becomes potentially more poignant and resonant. We know that the gist of the plot is to underscore not just the effects of domestic violence in the present, but to try and understand the sources so that path need never be taken again, but it's all presented in too shallow a fashion and could easily lose half an hour without impacting on the thrust - such as it is - of the drama. It's disappointing.

Manuel São Bento

Aug 9, 2024 · via TMDB

★ 6.0

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://talkingfilms.net/it-ends-with-us-review-balancing-love-trauma-and-abuse/ "It Ends With Us tries to balance heavy drama and conventional romance with some difficulties, but it manages to offer a minimally thought-provoking reflection on generational trauma and relationship abuse. Formulaic and not as deep as the complexity of its themes demands, yet still effective enough due to the strong performances of the cast, Justin Baldoni's sensitive lens, and several valuable messages for the audience. The heart is in the right place, despite the problems that haunt the film." Rating: B-

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Cast 18

Blake Lively

Lily Bloom

Justin Baldoni

Ryle Kincaid

Jenny Slate

Allysa

Brandon Sklenar

Atlas Corrigan

Hasan Minhaj

Marshall

Kevin McKidd

Andrew Bloom

Amy Morton

Jenny Bloom

Alex Neustaedter

Young Atlas Corrigan

Isabela Ferrer

Young Lily Bloom

Robert Clohessy

Sheriff

Robin S. Walker

Doctor Johnson

Emily Baldoni

Doctor Julie

Adam Mondschein

Doctor Dunbar

Caroline Siegrist

Katie

Robyn Lively

Ms. Byland

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Steve Monroe

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Paige Rhea Allison

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Michael Viola

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Ellie Haines

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Justin Baldoni

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Colleen Hoover

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US Release Dates 5

Aug 6, 2024

New York City, New York

PG-13 Premiere

Aug 9, 2024

PG-13 Theatrical

Sep 24, 2024

PG-13 Digital

Dec 9, 2024

Netflix

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Jun 9, 2026

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