Straying from clichés and conventions... Endings, Beginnings follows its protagonist to forge a new probable path within a genre, trusting Woodley to drive the story forward... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 4, 2023

...an LA relationship drama with TV sensibilities redeemed by a sublime performance from [Shailene] Woodley that shirks off any trace of big-city moral superiority.

Full Review | Original Score: 15/20 | Apr 1, 2021

It was written from a place of personal pain and experience. Unfortunately, when the cameras started to roll, that clear perspective was lost somewhere in the process...

Full Review | Jan 7, 2021

The cast does what it can, but nothing can really stop the film from arriving at pure cliche. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2020

All very chic and very indie... although it can be burdensome. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2020

This is an easy-going sitcom universe that sooths more than it challenges.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2020

With the lightest of directorial touches from Doremus, and Shailene Woodley's total immersion in the lead role, Endings, Beginnings blends relatable dating dilemmas with swooning romance to provide a drama that will sweep you away, if you let it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2020

If you can sit through to the end (a huge if), you'll be pleased that you did.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2020

Despite the film ultimately outstaying its welcome, Woodley makes it worth watching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2020

A return to form for indie darling Drake Doremus, who brings his nuance, sensitivities and homespun feel to a formulaic love-triangle set-up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2020

Well, it's a good performance from Woodley.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2020

Throughout the duration of Endings, Beginnings, I kept hoping that it would improve. Sadly, it never does.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 8, 2020

Unfortunately, this semi-improvised mumblecore drama just fails to compel, despite an impressively assembled cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 7, 2020

While Endings, Beginnings teeters on the edge of singular self-absorption, the intimacy of the Insurgent star's performance grounds it in something more universal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2020

The film's high-end performances breathe with naturalism, aided no doubt by the use of improvised dialogue and the absence of histrionics. Even when things get tense, voices rarely get loud. And Woodley is terrific.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2020

It's simply a film that feels put together based on some sort of schematic of a modern romantic drama, a film that feels decidedly incomplete...

Full Review | May 13, 2020

It manages to capture in such a sincere way the ups and downs of being a thirty-something. Shailene Woodley is sensational. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 10, 2020

As is with most of Drake Doremus's projects, Endings, Beginnings seems to be an illuminating experience for the actors involved, but an aimless drag for audiences watching.

Full Review | May 6, 2020

Endings, Beginnings is ultimately an undemanding but mildly absorbing watch that could be much more, especially given that it gets a few key things right about not fetishizing depression onscreen.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 5, 2020

Doremus puts Shailene Woodley front and centre in a gift of a role, and for all the awkward patches of the narrative, the film becomes satisfying in spite of and then because of its ambling restlessness.

Full Review | May 4, 2020