| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

A sub-par effort in family drama with Kirk Douglas barely registering above his usual excellence

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 22, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 14, 2004

Douglas struggles honorably with his stoke-impaired speech and a shoddy story.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 7, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Inappropriate for audiences of all ages.

| May 19, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: D | Apr 3, 2002

I have to admit I shed some sentimental tears during the movie, so it's not really very bad at all, but it could have used a script polish.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5 | Jun 15, 2001

Corny dialogue and a contrived plot.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 1, 2000

A thoroughly enjoyable piece.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The tag line for Diamonds promises that 'searching for buried treasure was never this much fun.' Replace 'much fun' with 'dull' and that marketing slogan suddenly gains a lot of truth.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[Not] a work of art, or even entertainment, but the filmic commensurate of a crippled panhandler using his handicap to beg for sympathy and change on a streetcorner.

| Original Score: F | Jan 1, 2000

Douglas, still vigorous at 83, carries the film with one of the best performances of his long career, probably because many of his scenes are straight from the heart.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Diamonds can be proud of its achievement as the ultimate primer on elderly embarrassments and the best ways to exploit them.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It'll be hard not to check your watch every five minutes.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Even in his prime, Douglas couldn't have saved himself from this cliche-ridden script.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000