Christian Science Monitor: From book to film: How does "The Lovely Bones" fare?
Mercury News: Review: ‘Lovely Bones’ lost in translation from book to screen
Alice Sebold’s debut novel, The Lovely Bones, was a feel-good book about a terrible crime. It operated via a kind of emotional S&M. The story of a 14-year-old-girl narrating her own rape and murder ...
MLive: New Movies Podcast: Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones,' 'The Book of Eli' and a big pile of new DVDs
New Movies Podcast: Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones,' 'The Book of Eli' and a big pile of new DVDs
The Lovely Bones is another in a long line of book adaptations that falls short, both in structure and in the realization of the source material. It does not start out that way though. At the ...
In Alice Sebold’s bestselling book “The Lovely Bones,” after 14-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and murdered by her next-to-door neighbor, she ends up in the afterworld, not quite heaven, but a sort of ...
In the disappointing adaptation of “The Lovely Bones,” director Peter Jackson runs wild with the CGI, a ludicrous decision that sucks the emotion out of Alice Sebold’s intimate novel. Perhaps the ...
The Lovely Bones is a tale told from beyond what doesn't even qualify as a grave. At the outset, we learn where and how 14-year-old Susie was murdered (brutally), by whom and with what devastating ...
"The Lovely Bones" doesn't always work, but Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson creates an ambitious adaptation of the bestselling Alice Sebold novel. So says John Serba, film critic for The Grand ...