If there is a message to be found in this 2007 comedy, which was directed by Rob Reiner, it is that if you are going to be diagnosed with terminal cancer then you will be better off if you are enormously rich.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 31, 2024

In the end it's a predictable movie that seems to try and manipulate the viewer into bursting into tears when really he or she might only be trying to suppress yawns.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

One of the most fun and uplifting films of the year.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 24, 2020

A huge joke. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 2, 2020

How a filmmaker can take two Oscar-winning actors with gifts for comedy and drama and construct a film that fails so miserably is beyond me.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

A lazy and condescending package from top to bottom.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 18, 2019

Despite its scripted shortcomings, THE BUCKET LIST is poignantly filled with heart, guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings and tear ducts as we each face our own mortality, hopefully with the same courage and joy as Edward and Carter.

| Nov 7, 2019

The Bucket List is far from a great movie, but it is a great opportunity to watch a pair of great actors at the top of their game.

| Original Score: B | Oct 29, 2019

As Rob Reiner should know better and Jack Nicholson should know better and Morgan Freeman should know better, what you have here is a film which has to make you ask: how come they didn't?

| Aug 23, 2018

Once more, Reiner defines himself as the schlock artist who knows, as do his stars, that coots with familiar faces can walk through this garden of schmaltz with their eyes closed.

| Jan 2, 2018

Its quest for meaningful insights keeps things listless.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 2, 2017

Meehl's gentle handling of her subject and her unobstrusive, observational camera work make this a delightful and touching experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2012

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Whilst this remains reasonably captivating for its first hour, it kinda runs out of steam after that...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A modestly uplifting, and at-times poignant, buddy comedy that manages to make the most of the worst of situations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

...contrived and forced, almost begging the audience to pull out the hankie.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 12, 2009

An endearing film that will bring you to tears and have you cherishing every relationship and day you have.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2009

...a hopelessly uneven endeavor that's ultimately felled by a lamentable emphasis on heavy-handed bursts of schmaltziness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 20, 2008