What if dogs really aren't this annoying when we get to hear inside their head? What if they're actually very smart or lovely?

| Sep 30, 2019

I went into it feeling a bit low and came out of it feeling a bit better. It's a reminder that sometimes there's a beauty in just going along with ordinary life, which is short, even more so for dogs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2019

If there are to be more sequels, I'm hoping that future Baileys cut the chat and hark back to a time when heroism trumped cuteness and movie dogs left the punchlines to the human members of the cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2019

A Dog's Journey is a series of moments, tenuously connected with little impact or consequence, with Josh Gad narrating the whole thing in an increasingly irritating juvenile tone.

| May 27, 2019

This is the type of movie where all characters are either "good" or "bad," nothing in between, and the only emotions are "happy" and "sad." It's as if it was written from the emotional mindset of a dog.

| Original Score: C- | May 17, 2019

There are plenty of "awwww" moments to go around, with reconciliation, support, and reunion, and plenty of human and canine characters to care for.

| Original Score: B+ | May 17, 2019

It's about halfway through the film when one realizes how much deeper Mancuso and team are going with this dog's journey... It's about how dogs can fill the hole in your heart that a person might leave.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 17, 2019

Is A Dog's Journey one of the sweetest canine films out there, or one of the meanest?

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 17, 2019

I enjoyed the film, as many will, in a split-brain way that goes to the essence of fantasy -- half-believing what I wanted to be true, embracing the emotional manipulation whenever possible.

| May 16, 2019

A Dog's Journey ends in bittersweet fashion, but with the suspicion that this franchise will live on.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 16, 2019

It's less egregiously tonally divided than A Dog's Purpose, but still the same weird mix of tearjerking dog death, soapy drama, and kid-friendly comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 16, 2019

The love we share with our canine companions is one of the simplest emotions there is, and to build an entire film around manipulating that love is lazy storytelling.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 16, 2019

A corny but effective tearjerker for kids and families.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2019

I suppose it's a genuine achievement that a movie packed with as much delightful canine (and agreeable human) talent as this one should be so insufferable.

| May 16, 2019

Director Gail Mancuso, a 온라인카지노추천 comedy veteran, gets the desired effect-as manipulative as it may be-out of both the funny scenes and the sad ones, leading up to a finale that can only be described as weapons-grade tearjerker material.

| Original Score: C | May 15, 2019

Even the crustiest viewers (count me among them) must credit director Gail Mancuso for a handful of sequences that, amid all the glop, are capable of softening a hard heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 15, 2019

I literally had tears going down my face about three times, even as my rational brain was saying, "don't you dare get sucked in by this!"

| May 6, 2019

A steady stream of corn-syrup sentiment binding what would otherwise amount to a feature-length montage of adorable doggy reaction GIFs.

| May 5, 2019

Is A Dog's Journey manipulative? Absolutely. Is it effective? Hell, yes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2019

Only its restlessness feels novel, tailored as it is to wet-nosed viewers made distractible by hours of scrolling through floof-centric Instagram feeds.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2019