How I Live Now offers adolescents a lovely vision of holistic healing in the same countryside.
– Bill Stamets,
Chicago Sun-Times,
8 Nov 2013
fresh:
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.
– Jocelyn Noveck,
Associated Press,
14 Nov 2013
rotten:
"How I Live Now" makes World War III seem boring, which would hardly seem possible.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Nov 2013
fresh:
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.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
14 Nov 2013
fresh:
Refreshingly free of digital apocalyptics and unnervingly prone to random violence.