Williams and director Chris Columbus have crafted a moving, hanky-clenching drama, without ramming the emotion down your throat.

| Mar 18, 2024

The film is worth a look. Williams is the primary reason. His performance has heart, brains and courage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2023

Chris Columbus -- who is undeniably skilled at making funny movies -- has the deft touch of a steamroller when it comes to serious matters of the heart, mechanical or otherwise.

| Original Score: F | Nov 13, 2019

Kids will be bored, the rest of us baffled.

| Feb 16, 2018

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Film about robot who wants to be human is so-so.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

...aspires to an almost adult level of seriousness.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 2, 2005

Bicentennial Man is sometimes sweet, but it's also a phenomenal waste of talent, and a continuation of a Williams' trip down the wrong road.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The film swiftly settles into an unevenly paced, episodic structure, unsure whether it's a family saga, a sci-fi drama or a children's comedy.

| Dec 2, 2002

Columbus lays on the sentimentality thickly, sometimes letting it get in the way of the storytelling. The longer the movie continues, the more overt he becomes in his emotional pandering.

| Nov 6, 2002

Virtually every emotion, motivation, idea, character and plot point in the movie is flat and perfunctory -- except for those that carry the invisible subtitle, 'Cry, dammit!'

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2002

| Original Score: C- | Sep 18, 2002

You long for [Williams] to break the metal mold, if only for a minute, to remind you that you are watching the best improvisational comedian of this millennium.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2002

Becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s.

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

It's one thing to ask an audience to love a mechanical man, but quite another to love a mechanical performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Best left on the shelf to collect dust.

| Original Score: short | Mar 8, 2002