| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

Bring the tissues. This film works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2009

There's no question that this is a really intriguing drama and a drama that I think deserved better treatment than it gets here because I think Nick Cassevetes -- I don't think he's a very good director, really.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2009

The decision to avoid unnecessary sentimentality defines this film, elevating it to a more thoughtful if a touch less engaging arena, sacrificing emotional escapism for conversation provoking tragedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2009

Diaz is a whiny irrelevance, but sharp supporting work from Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack makes the proceedings tolerable for boyfriends.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2009

You should consent to having treacle intravenously injected into your system sooner than go to see this Hollywood weepie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2009

By the end we are screaming to yank our engines away from the forecourt as fuel spills - all that piano music, that gilded lighting, those glycerine tears - threatening a pyre of sense, sensibility and supersensitive subject choice.

| Jul 3, 2009

This medical-ethics drama is like a sustained assault on the tear ducts.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2009

My Sister's Keeper becomes a well-heeled weepie in which the family's comfortable existence, despite the misfortunes of fate, is hardly challenged at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2009

This movie cheapens the experience of a family struggling to come to terms with the impending loss of a loved one. Cry? I very nearly did. Just not in the way Cameron probably hoped.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2009

Where restraint might have raised up My Sister's Keeper, a heavy hand has brought it down.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 1, 2009

Given how easily the filmmakers could have cranked up the string section and gone for the quivering lip in soft focus, their restraint is admirable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2009

My Sister's Keeper targets tear ducts so ruthlessly, it might as well be sponsored by Kleenex.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 26, 2009

A surprisingly lovely movie about an absolutely awful subject, My Sister's Keeper features what also may be the year's first performance worthy of Oscar mention.

| Original Score: B | Jun 26, 2009

My Sister's Keeper takes on a very tough subject, but ultimately it is too soft, too easy, and it dissolves like a tear-soaked tissue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2009

My Sister's Keeper humanizes vexing questions about medical ethics without sacrificing rattling family drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 26, 2009

Although the compelling courtroom drama gets forgotten for much of the movie, My Sister's Keeper also is relatively realistic about the physical and emotional toll of disease.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2009

With solid performances and an intelligent script, My Sister's Keeper offers a moving and powerfully realistic portrait of a family stalked by tragedy that somehow manages to emerge from crisis battered but intact.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 26, 2009

For all its awkward structure, the film is heartfelt and deeply affecting.

| Jun 26, 2009

My Sister's Keeper takes a compelling ethical dilemma and turns it into formulaic pap by trying relentlessly to ensure an emotional reaction with sentimental exploitation and plot contrivances.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 26, 2009