The Lovely Bones (2009) 4K Blu-ray Review: A Weird, Messy Time Capsule That Holds Up Better Than Expected
Rewatching The Lovely Bones on 4K Blu-ray feels like opening a time capsule from 2009 that nobody quite knew what to do with at the time. Peter Jackson was coming off the back-to-back juggernauts of The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, and instead of taking another massive action swing, he adapted Alice Sebold's bestselling novel about a murdered teenage girl watching her family fall apart from the afterlife. It's a weird, tonally jagged movie. Half of it is a grimy, agonizingly tense suburban thriller, and the other half is an aggressively saturated CGI fever dream. Watching the 4K disc now, the movie still doesn't totally work as a cohesive story, but it doesn't need to; that's the part I missed the first time around. The two halves of the film fight each other for two hours, and I'm starting to see that may have been the point. If you haven't revisited it since high school or whenever it was constantly playing on cable, the setup is pretty grim. It's ...