After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Everything is just a little off: The plot is resolved too tidily, and Lively appears ill at ease - she's stiff and self-consciously ladylike, as if she were a little embarrassed by the material.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Village Voice,
24 Apr 2015
rotten:
This is a film that needs Amy Adams's twinkle or Sandra Bullock's nervous stammering. It needs a star with life.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
24 Apr 2015
rotten:
This is one of those movies that have you wondering: Long before the actors signed up and the locations were chosen and the sets were built and the filming began, how did someone not say, "Um, we have a big problem with this story"?
– Richard Roeper,
Chicago Sun-Times,
26 Apr 2015
rotten:
The conceit endows Lively's regal air of distracted superiority with an intermittent pathos, but the director, Lee Toland Krieger, brings no identifiable perspective, and the screenwriters ... hardly tap a century's worth of material.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Apr 2015
fresh:
Harrison Ford's performance is the big surprise in this otherwise wonky, frequently shambling tall tale.