Director Marti Noxon has been open about her past struggles with eating disorders and says she hopes her new film starring Lily Collins as Ellen, a young woman suffering from anorexia, will "serve as a conversation starter about an issue that's too often clouded by secrecy and misconceptions," the Guardian noted in June. But ahead of To the Bone's release Friday on Netflix, plenty are discussing whether the film does more harm than good.
Some reactions:
- Though To the Bone currently has an 81% rating from 21 critics on Rotten Tomatoes, Peter Bradshaw says it's "notable only for its sheer extravagant awfulness." Writing at the Guardian, he calls the film "trite, shallow, cautiously middlebrow, and blandly complicit in the cult of female prettiness that it is supposedly criticizing."
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at the AV Club notes "how little the movie actually addresses Ellen's condition" and leaves the impression only of "a pretty face" and "a body hung in chic, loose clothes."
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