If I Stay
Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate.
1954, Canada
10 November 1991, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
26 September 1984, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
8 July 1991, Douglas, Isle of Man, UK
20 August 1995, Galveston, Texas, USA
January 09, 2017
If I Stay is the best when it focuses on its characters and relationships. Everything else is somewhat extraneous.
February 29, 2016
The problem with this film is its languorous style and overwhelming use of a soppy atmosphere.
August 29, 2014
For a drama pretty much aimed at 12-year-old girls, this is less superficial than you'd expect.
July 31, 2015
A true middle-of-the-road effort, provoking neither scorn nor admiration
August 22, 2014
You want these people to have real challenges and messiness. But their lives don't quite feel lived in; they feel exemplary.
September 04, 2014
Documentarian R.J. Cutler, in his feature debut, joins Moretz in delivering this pap as if it meant something. Cue eye rolling.
August 22, 2014
[Moretz's] grounded, naturalistic presence goes a long way toward making mushy material palatable.
August 22, 2014
The heroine lies in the coma, but the audience may feel brain-dead by the end of If I Stay.
April 14, 2016
[Laps] itself in a race towards tastelessness that no one asked it to run.
September 30, 2014
If I Stay never explains whether Mia's is a special case or if everyone who hovers between life and death has that decision to make. And if it's the latter, does that mean your gramps and meemaw simply didn't love you enough to stick around?
September 15, 2014
The title refers to Mia's fraught decision-should she cling to existence or just give up?-and, well before the end, even loyal viewers will be begging her to hurry up and choose.
February 28, 2016
If I Stay proves another trite tale belittling its earned emotion with misguided adolescent fantasy.
