Washington Post
Let’s get this out of the way: If “Before I Fall” were an elevator pitch, it would be a cross between “Groundhog Day” and “If I Stay.” It also shares strands of DNA with such teen-angst classics as “Carrie,” “Heathers” and “Mean Girls,” as well as the more recent — and sexually self-aware — coming-of-age parables “Diary of a Teenage Girl” and “The Edge of Seventeen.” But even as those inescapable echoes bounce around the viewer’s head, this confident, tonally on-point adaptation of Lauren Oliver’s 2010 young-adult novel manages to carve out territory all its own — even if that happens to be the same rainy, blue-gray Pacific Northwest environs that bear more than a passing resemblance to “Twilight.”
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