| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 11, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 10, 2012

Ponderously sincere but it does tell a good story.

| Feb 10, 2012

It is a laborious, sentimental drama featuring a self-parodic performance from Drew Barrymore, based on a 온라인카지노추천 news event that briefly gripped the US in 1988.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2012

Much better than the poster or trailer suggests.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2012

By-the-book dialogue and lame performances do the film no favours but, hey, worse things happen at sea.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2012

The sledgehammer emoting should let you know you're in a family drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2012

I've got to say, Big Miracle is a heck of a lot more entertaining and enjoyable than I remotely figured it was going to be before I stepped into the theatre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2012

This is a movie that didn't grab me at first, but it pummeled me into enjoying it by the end.

| Feb 3, 2012

Big Miracle is all formula, but with just enough savvy to temper the gentle-spiritedness and qualify it as that rare family film with an emotional manipulativeness that doesn't leave a sick slick in the mouth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2012

If you're looking for a passable film to take the kids to this weekend, Miracle offers a smart enough take on its feel-good plot to keep adult viewers tuned in.

| Feb 3, 2012

"Big Miracle" might be subtitled, "How Hollywood Turned a Real Story Into Bogus Fiction."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 3, 2012

Big Miracle is not one of those whale tales that leaves the audience blubbering, but it's open to the allure of the imposing creatures, which resemble long boulders that have come to life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2012

"Big Miracle" shouldn't really work, but it does.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2012

Cold War-era bonding over whales? It would sound utterly absurd if it weren't based on fact. And that's part of what makes this movie fun for adults.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2012

Too naive for the tricky grown-up issues it tackles, but not smart or sweet enough to get away with it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2012

Given the abundance of one-dimensional human portrayals, it becomes apparent that a documentary on the subject might have been more powerful.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2012

"Big Miracle" gets off to a shaky start, but once revved up, it becomes an involving work-against-the-clock-and-the-odds action movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2012

It is a whale of a comic tale, if also one overly crowded with characters and incidents.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 2, 2012