The Express Tribune

Peter Jackson says 'mistakes' were made around Ryan Gosling exit from 'The Lovely Bones'

Peter Jackson has addressed Ryan Gosling’s departure from The Lovely Bones, acknowledging that “mistakes” were made during the casting process for the 2009 film. Speaking during a career ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...