It's not particularly dramatic or even fascinating to watch.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 1, 2017

The film is never less than watchable, and thanks to the collective efforts of Smith, Morse, Baldwin and Brooks it's oftentimes more than that.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2016

A crusading whistleblower movie, not too far from (though slightly inferior to) 'The Insider,' both an actor's showcase and a vehicle for creating restrained goosebumps.

| Apr 27, 2016

Told in fits and starts, the film does convey a fair bit of information, but it never clarifies what needs to be done about the continuing danger.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2016

The script also knows how to pull back when sentimentality threatens. The film's salutary ending shows just how it's done.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2016

Omalu's dedication to his profession and his struggle to make himself heard and understood make for an inspirational story, and Landesman effectively lays out the facts and invites the audience to judge both Omalu and his opponents.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 19, 2016

Concussion takes a serious subject - brain damage caused to professional American football players, and the collusion of the medical establishment in covering it up - and renders it in full-bore, crashing-bore, Oscar-courting prestige drama mode.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2016

Smith's performance is his best in years, an oasis of intelligent calm amid writer-director Peter Landesman's soapy melodrama, characterised by James Newton Howard's never knowingly understated score.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2016

The suspicion lingers that this story might have been better told in a documentary than in a dramatic feature. The film also pulls its punches at times.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 11, 2016

Smith takes on Omalu's Nigerian accent and too-perfect grammar with confidence, as this man with eight university degrees and an iron respect for science finds his research being crushed by the dollar-rolling might of the NFL machine -- and even the FBI.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2016

Smith's performance is shallow, conceited and bland.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 11, 2016

A middle-of-the-road drama populated by stock characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 11, 2016

Smith's talent and presence holds true... familiar tale loses a bit of its dramatic punch...

Full Review | Jan 7, 2016

The movie murmurs, when it - and others - should be shouting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2015

After a good start, the second half tries to make a strong case for the film's agenda - but what it really needs is a strong character.

| Dec 29, 2015

A melodramatic but compelling enough lab-coat drama about football players and the pathological implications of too many blows to their heads ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 25, 2015

Just in time for the NFL playoffs, here comes "Concussion," a movie that will hopefully give many serious pause about our nation's most popular sport.

| Original Score: B | Dec 25, 2015

While "Concussion" has some fine things going for it, notably science and Will Smith, it lacks the exciting, committed filmmaking that rises to the level of its outrageous topic.

| Dec 25, 2015

In football terms, it's a fumble.

| Original Score: C | Dec 24, 2015

Landesman has pushed too hard to make this story fit into a dramatic mold, alternating melodrama and romance with those earnest warnings in a way that is more ungainly than effective.

| Dec 24, 2015