A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
A great performance from Dakota Fanning fails to save this shallow look at terminal illness.
You’ll be in bits, but your critical faculties might weep too.
By the umpteenth almost-death scene, your own will to live might be severely tested.
With such a fine cast, Ol Parker's British drama is several notches above any of the recent American sobfests, managing to stay clear-eyed and wry for longer than you might imagine. But not knowing when to quit while it's ahead, the picture eventually slides into mawkishness.
Now is Good is not nearly as ghastly as it sounds.
Fanning, with her cheeky smirk, carries the film well, but it's Paddy Considine, as usual, who wrests some reality and emotion from trite, if well-intentioned, material.
Moments of devastating family anguish will leave you in tears...but that doesn’t make up for the idiotic scenes in between.
It's well-meaning but glib in its box-ticking and dot-joining; it just doesn't touch the heart.
Take a box of hankies.
A hymn to adolescent self-absorption, Now is Good may go down well at 14-year-old girls' sleepover parties, but my sympathies were with Fanning's divorced parents.
Paddy Considine does well as the father, and it's less sentimental than one might expect, certainly less so than the standard Hollywood product.
Now is the time for a good old weepie
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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