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

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

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

The worst kind of movie -- one with no direction, no identity, and above all no heart.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2001

It's frequently witless and entirely lacks conviction.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Bicentennial Man has heart, but lacks bite.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

An underfunded inventor makes enough snide asides about 'relentlessly unfashionable android technology' that you half expect Williams to start speechifying about the merits of cloning.

| Jan 1, 2000

Lacks urgency.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Mr. Williams latches onto every cheap laugh he can find.

| Jan 1, 2000

A male fantasy with artificial intelligence.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This tin man has a heart, but his movie needs a pulse.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Bicentennial Man's heart may be synthetic, but it beats strongly, nonetheless.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A likable movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This movie gives families a good opportunity to talk about what makes us human.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Canned emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Part of the deep appeal of this film is its undercurrent of yearning beneath surface ironies.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Columbus ... has a suffocating sense of family values in which all problems are plot-deep and there is no familial crisis ... that can't be fixed with a Motown sing-along.

| Jan 1, 2000