Endings, Beginnings

Name: Endings, Beginnings
Director: Drake Doremus
Released: 2020

Synopsis

An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.

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Screen Daily
The latest from Drake Doremus is a candid, very watchable account of a messy period in a woman’s life.
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IndieWire
Daphne shouldn’t be this captivating, but with Woodley’s vulnerability and full-scale charm backing her up, Endings, Beginnings is able to capitalize on a seemingly thin premise.
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Variety
The movie may be a self-help exercise of sorts — for those who seldom recognize themselves on screen, and who don’t measure up to the expectations set by rom-coms and princess movies — but it’s disguised as a shaggy character study.
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The Film Stage
Despite the underlying emotional complexity shared via triggered vignettes of memory, the film too often chooses to live in the present and thus within the love triangle it so desperately wants to subvert.
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Screen Rant
Endings, Beginnings favors style over substance, rarely igniting the spark its meant to and anchored only by a compelling Shailene Woodley.
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Rolling Stone
Though the movie stalls frequently before it finds its balance, Woodley makes us care.
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The Playlist
It’s a mighty snoozy affair, in which we discover that Doremus’s cinematic style —intimate, personal, and improvisation — has not so much solidified as cauterized.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The movie aims to make Daphne's journey raw and real, but mostly it's just insipid.