How I Live Now
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
12 September 1973, Hartlepool, England, UK
13 March 1992, London, England, UK
25 May 1952, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
21 March 1965, Manchester, England, UK
1 June 1996, Kingston upon Thames, England, UK
27 April 1965, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
August 18, 2014
Based on the YA novel by Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now finds itself hindered by its source material, even as it seeks to surpass it.
April 05, 2014
Lush and bewilderingly rich with portent and moment, Kevin Macdonald's gently wrought apocalyptic-pop teen romance takes place in a deadly near future in the English countryside far from the center of modern war.
November 14, 2013
"How I Live Now" makes World War III seem boring, which would hardly seem possible.
February 28, 2014
On the outside, How I Live Now looks like a mess. Part Tomorrow When the War Began, part The Shining, part 28 Days Later, it's a hodgepodge of concepts that don't completely gel. So it's weird that the film is actually quite good.
November 08, 2013
How I Live Now offers adolescents a lovely vision of holistic healing in the same countryside.
November 14, 2013
How I Live Now centres on what happens to a group of young people when civilization begins to crumble. But it's also a poignant love story, a compelling, against-all-odds one at that.
November 08, 2013
There's a lot left unsaid in How I Live Now - but it's unsaid with unusual force.
November 14, 2013
There's a clear message here: Sometimes it takes extraordinary circumstances to realize it, but we all have the capacity to shed our petty concerns and focus on the greater good.
May 15, 2014
Saoirse Ronan supplies what the screenwriters do not
February 18, 2014
I did not believe what was happening. I didn't particularly like the performances.
November 15, 2013
Refreshingly free of digital apocalyptics and unnervingly prone to random violence.
March 13, 2014
How I Live Now is likely to appeal to both teens and older viewers, and it thankfully doesn't blindly follow formulas, but allows itself to drift and flow.
