Just Like Heaven (2005) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Just Like Heaven suggests that a post-coma Elizabeth might understand what life is truly all about. Of course, if being alive means having to live in this movie, maybe she was better off the way she was.Read the full review
Yes. The movie works, and so we accept everything.Read the full review
That Just Like Heaven succeeds at all - at least for teenage girls with limited interest in the drafting of living wills - is due entirely to Witherspoon's can-do charisma.Read the full review
There are moments when it is possible, with effort, to forget the plot and its tired premise and enjoy Witherspoon and Ruffalo's chemistry and imagine they are in another movie. But never for long.Read the full review
The movie starts cheating the audience early, and never lets up.Read the full review
The last half is so superior to the first that you wish they'd rethought the whole thing and devised a way to make it more of a one piece.Read the full review
Crossing the life-death divide, Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are a winning pair in this smart and tender comedy.Read the full review
It's not heaven, exactly, but after the purgatory of the late summer movie season, it may be close enough.Read the full review
Part of the problem is Mark Ruffalo, whose tortured sensitivity in "You Can Count On Me" and "We Don't Live Here Anymore" made him seem like Marlon Brando's heir apparent, not Will Smith's.Read the full review
Garnering a chuckle or two, but no more, are Donal Logue from "The Tao of Steve" (now there's a comedy) -- and, as a desperate magnet for both the slacker and "dude" demographics, Jon Heder from Napoleon Dynamite.Read the full review
