A Million Little Pieces
critic Reviews
28% Rotten Tomatometer Score28%- While solidly cast and competently helmed, A Million Little Pieces amounts to little more than a well-intentioned but unpersuasive echo of a deeply problematic memoir.
- Fresh Tomatometer ScoreShannon McGrewNightmarish Conjurings
I'm glad a film like A Million Little Pieces exists because it's a reminder that life with an addiction doesn't have to be hopeless.
Read full article - Rotten Tomatometer ScoreChris BumbrayJoBlo's Movie Emporium
If you're a fan of the book it's worth seeing, but the memoir is, unfortunately, a product of its time that's hard to adapt
Read full article - Fresh Tomatometer ScoreStephen SchaeferBoston Herald
This is a journey, troubling and perhaps dangerous but well-worth taking.
Read full article - Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard RoeperChicago Sun-Times
As a stand-alone work of cinema fiction, "A Million Little Pieces" is an effective blunt instrument of a film - a rough-edged, unvarnished, painfully accurate portrayal of addiction and rehabilitation.
Read full article - Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.com
A petulant, boastful, and not very noteworthy variation of a story that plenty of films, documentary and fiction, have told before, but with more insight or panache.
Read full article - Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAlci RengifoEntertainment Voice
Not to downplay the experience of battling addiction, but "A Million Little Pieces" feels bland because it goes over the typical scenes of bodily decay and temper tantrums without giving the narrative a truly human backstory.
Read full article - Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAlison WillmoreNew York Magazine/Vulture
An underwhelming addiction story that feels not just familiar, but more focused on the bad-boy swagger of its main character than his actual recovery.
Read full article - Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJeannette CatsoulisNew York Times
Yet another ruin-and-rehab tale, one that initially tantalizes then flatly disappoints.
Read full article - Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJohnny OleksinskiNew York Post
James' inner life and his experience is made up of a million little pieces, but in this flat film we get just one.
Read full article - Rotten Tomatometer ScoreTara McNamaraCommon Sense Media
Adults-only rehab drama shocks but falls short on story.
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