Life Just Is is a 2012 British independent drama film written and directed by Alex Barrett and starring Will De Meo, Jack Gordon,[1] Nathaniel Martello-White, Fiona Ryan, Jayne Wisener and Paul Nicholls.

In one scene, the character David performs "Geordie in Wonderland" by The Wildhearts, and two of the other songs he sings are originally by bands featuring ex-Wildhearts members: "Lemonade Girl" by The Jellys and "Moving Along" by Plan A.

[14] It has been described as "gogglingly boring and appallingly acted" by Catherine Shoard of The Guardian,[15] "a British twist on the mumblecore genre" by Amber Wilkinson of Eye for Film[16] and "unimaginative and quite frankly dull" by Jennifer Tate of ViewLondon.

[17] Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph was more positive, awarding the film three out of five stars and calling it a "Thoughtful, affable, unfashionably angsty shoestring debut about young Londoners figuring stuff out in their post-college years".

[19] David Parkinson of Empire Magazine also awarded the film three out of five stars, stating that "Writer/director Barrett delivers a promising debut that pitches four believable characters into the euphoria and dismay of post-uni life".

Anton Bitel of Little White Lies wrote "writer/director Alex Barrett's feature debut settles for rites-of-passage ensemble drama in a Bergman mould, but its stilted, awkward dialogue hardly improves upon the audible lines of the film-within-a-film critiqued in that opening scene.