'life Itself' Review: From 'this Is Us' Creator, An Emotional Mugging

Michael Phillips, Orlando Sentinel: Movies
Wed, 09/19/2018 - 7:25am

Not to be confused with Roger Ebert’s autobiography, or anything good, actually, “Life Itself” is an emotional mugging, not a movie. Writer-director Dan Fogelman, creator of NBC-TV’s warm bath of feels “This is Us,” tells his story in five chapters and a million platitudes. When a key character...

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