“The Luckiest Girl Alive” (* out of four) was a punishing adaptation of Jessica Knoll’s best-selling novel about a socialite (Mila Kunis) who seemingly has the perfect life and everything seems fine on the surface but underneath hides crippling personal pain and trauma that threatens to upend her existence when she has to unspool all of this to a documentary filmmaker (Dalmar Abuzeid). How such an awful adaptation could be made is hard to fathom since Knoll adapted her book and wrote the screenplay herself. Kunis remains a terrific actress but is completely undone by static direction and storytelling. Film’s cutting back-and-forth in time structure is really annoying also and it goes on forever (two hours but believe me- it feels much longer). By the end, it seems bewildering and pointless. An unlucky and complete misfire.

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