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Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijNoxon, who also wrote the screenplay, manages to explore dark and complex issues while frequently leavening them with unexpected moments of humor.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenOne of the film’s great qualities is its casualness and willingness to be simply human and to not let sociological politics dominate.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFor young people suffering, the movie offers both hope and clarity; for more experienced viewers, it may come off a little too much like "Girl, Interrupted" through a Lifetime lens.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeIt’s not an easy sit, nor a terribly entertaining one, but in the hands of writer-director Marti Noxon, it delivers painful insights in a relatively fresh way.
- 70Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangPart character study, part PSA, the movie chronicles a brief but meaningful period in its protagonist’s healing journey, and if there are few surprises along the way, there are equally few easy answers or miraculous breakthroughs.
- 70Village VoiceApril WolfeVillage VoiceApril WolfeThough To the Bone isn’t quite enjoyable to watch, it’s acted well and is, in its depiction of this all-too-pervasive disorder, essential.
- 50The Film StageJohn FinkThe Film StageJohn FinkWith its predicable beats, one wishes this drama doubled down on the alarming effects of eating disorders. The film doesn’t make light of them, but it also doesn’t shed much new light on the process of recovery.
- 50The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIt’s snarkier and a little more self-conscious than the rest, but just as cornball.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt’s a dismal TV movie of the week: trite, shallow, cautiously middlebrow and blandly complicit in the cult of female prettiness that it is supposedly criticising.