As a film in general, Uncle Nino would probably be no more than a 6 out of 10, but as a family film it merits a 7.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 23, 2010

The message is timeless. Family matters. Tell people you love them. Despite its predictability, the movie works because it is completely without guile.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006

Nino acts like an Italian fairy-god-uncle... transforming this house into a home - where flowers thrive, violin music fills the air, and everybody eats dinner together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2005

It feels something like a made-for-온라인카지노추천 movie that fell back behind the fridge circa 1982 and has been rotting there ever since.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2005

A third-rate Robin Williams movie that didn't even have the decency to hire Robin Williams.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Mar 3, 2005

Shallcross fails to infuse the proceedings with the wit or distinctiveness necessary to lift it above the crop of its so many similar-themed predecessors.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2005

Both movies have familiar and even hokey aspects, but they're also sincere rather than cynical, and there's something affecting about the very similar messages they're peddling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2005

Such a hamfisted effort that the ostensibly comic moments aren't nearly as funny as the sappily earnest serious parts.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 18, 2005

There's a place for a movie like this--but it's really on the Hallmark Hall of Fame rather than in an auditorium you have to pay to get into.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 15, 2005

Aggressive heartwarmer, which turns out to be much more of a heartburner.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2005

There's not a single surprise or moment of dramatic tension.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2005

Aspires to be a My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but succeeds only in being a big, fat, ethnic cliche.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2005

An effortless heartwarmer that manages to be utterly corny but quite likable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

This is barely believable treacle, not helped by the fact that the characters don't even rise to the level of cartoons, much less real people.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 11, 2005

This is not my kind of movie, and I found myself feeling mighty restless by the end, or even halfway through, or even near the beginning, but objectively I know there are people who will embrace this movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2005

The film -- and its characters -- are full of quirks. But it tries a little too hard, especially where the quirks are concerned.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Heartwarming is not always a bad thing. Consider this family film from writer-director Robert Shallcross: It's not only warm and fuzzy in all the right places, it's something that the whole family might actually enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2005

It's the sort of fluff that may catch your eye during channel-surfing sessions, but it's hardly worthy of an outing and an open wallet.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2005

The characters are all clichs, the dialogue is abominable and every story point is radioed so far in advance that it should come with its own motorcade.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 11, 2005

Its celebration of the importance of the family unit makes it a family film in the truest sense of the term.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005