On the strength of the performances alone, Bella garners a recommendation.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

Shining its own special glow, BELLA is about family, friendship, tragedy, joy and the undeniable healing power of love and touches on the humanness and need in us all.

| Nov 6, 2019

What works well on television does not always translate well onto the big screen and, despite some arresting moments, for the most part I found Bella's cloying sentimentality a real turn-off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

The film is nicely shot in New York and subtitled "One moment can change your life forever". There's not a moment here likely to change ours.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 2, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2010

Bella is without doubt one of the least apologetic blendings of heartfelt intentions, cinematic manipulation, and ultra sentimentality that I have seen in some time.

| May 19, 2008

This is not a weepy, but a story about healing, forgiveness and redemption.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2008

Bella is mostly harmless, feel-good fare, and not unlike a 온라인카지노추천 movie of the week in depth. And you could take your old granny with you to see it, without fear.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 11, 2008

From the quiet performances to the sensitive direction, everything about this movie is convincing except the very story that drives it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2008

Bella is an irrefutably effortless and heartwarming film, another indie gem with a deep soul and a beautiful message.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Bella is a gentle film with a big heart.

| Feb 14, 2008

Corn smothered in queso, this sentimental hokum sticks in your throat.

| Original Score: F | Feb 3, 2008

It's more of a life story than a love story. It's also a story that would play just as well if you waited to see this on the small screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2007

Its anti-abortion argument is loaded: How many pregnant waitresses discover they've been working alongside a kind, sensitive and handsome former millionaire soccer star with no girlfriend who's happy to become an adoptive father?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 26, 2007

An inspirational ethnic soap opera story about two damaged sensitive souls coming together in a stressed-out New York City.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 17, 2007

Through the bog of clichés in director/co-writer Alejandro G. Monteverde's melodrama, the flinty reality of Blanchard's performance shines.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2007

Bella turns out to be a clumsy message movie, one that leaves a lingering bad taste, whatever your beliefs regarding its highly divisive subject, abortion.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 15, 2007

Bella is a (...) parable of remorse and redemption, a tale of two damaged souls who end up helping each other find release from their tragic pasts.

| Nov 14, 2007