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

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

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

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | 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

Has an undeniably generous heart even as it undertakes its all-too-familiar lessons.

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

Uncle Nino is strictly straightforward and utterly conventional yet has been made with the kind of caring and commitment that will connect with many viewers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2005

A creaky, cliched, feel-good family drama about learning to stop and smell the roses - and planting a vegetable garden while you're at it -- Uncle Nino is shameless, sappy fare.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2005

It's all neat and sweet and one-dimensional, more the moral to a story than a story.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 10, 2005

Sounds Disneyfied enough on paper, but the elderly, violin-toting hero's successful attempt to infiltrate his miscreant nephew's mall-punk garage band is too creepy to fulfill the hipness quotient.

| Feb 8, 2005

Though convinced it's helping people to rediscover their roots, the film succeeds only in planting corn.

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