Miami New Times

Peter Jackson makes a one-dimensional Lovely Bones

A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the ’00s loose on one of the decade’s prime literary phenomena: Cults collide as Peter “Lord of the ...
Indy Week

Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is dark and static

If anything seemed like a sure thing, it was the film adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s mega-best-sellerit remained on The New York Times hardback best-seller list for more than a ...
The Stanford Daily

Text and the City: In ‘The Lovely Bones,’ why are dead girls easier to love?

Alice Sebold’s 2002 novel, “The Lovely Bones” risks romanticizing violence against women rather than confronting it as ...