With plenty of heart and soul, Devotion is an emotional spectacle, packed with soaring highs and gut-wrenching potency.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2023

Though Majors is able to show Brown’s inner turmoil, a spark with Powell never ignites. There’s an air of politeness that governs this relationship. In their attempt to present a wholesome friendship, the writers end up showing one that doesn’t connect.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 26, 2022

There are stretches of Devotion where it doesn’t seem like all that much is happening, but then you look closer and you realize that just about everything is happening.

| Nov 25, 2022

Though it hits all the expected beats, it’s the attention to the little details that makes “Devotion” take flight.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 24, 2022

As an intellectual dismantling of white savior narratives, “Devotion” is smartly done; as an enjoyable heartwarmer to watch with your uncle, it’s stiff when it should soar.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 24, 2022

It’s committed to the hallmarks of the genre, for better and for worse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2022

If "they don't make 'em like they used to" is a thing you say about movies, "Devotion" is for you.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 23, 2022

An oddly dull and dutiful biopic, too restrained to serve the valiant efforts of its leads.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 23, 2022

“Do you know how tired I am of people trying to help me while looking down on me?” Brown asks in one devastating scene. He’s speaking to Hudner, but the line lands a direct hit against every white-saviour movie that came before it.

| Nov 23, 2022

A stirring story of friendship during war, and beyond, that is both rare and real.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2022

Ultimately, the film feels sanitized, sanded down from a harder, more confrontational film, and built to satisfy audiences who just want a good action film.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 23, 2022

Whenever that camera is on Majors, whenever the planes soar through the deadly sky, and whenever that score crescendos, J.D. Dillard’s film comes pretty close to greatness. If only the rest of the movie didn’t get in the way.

| Nov 22, 2022

A well-intentioned but underwhelming war drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 22, 2022

Ultimately, this is a weird way to honor a man who would posthumously receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. In many ways, framing his heroics beside a white wingman undermines the singularity of Brown.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 21, 2022

The movie’s climactic sequence is... powerful because it effectively evokes the chaos and cost of war. Most of the rest of “Devotion” just apes clunky old war movies.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2022

This unfocused, awkwardly paced film never quite gets off the ground and, as a result, will do little to change perceptions of the Korean War as the “forgotten war.”

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 20, 2022

The friendship between Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner is one of the great stories of American military history. “Devotion” earnestly tells that story in a stolid, straightforward manner...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 18, 2022

Aerial scenes, family drama and aircraft carrier sequences all are well done... [But] viewers should leave the theater feeling inspired by Jesse Brown's valiant deeds. But due to the script's blunders, they may not.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2022

The acting, specifically that of Majors and Jackson, the intense battle sequences, Majors and Powell’s chemistry, and the emotional moments make it worthwhile.

| Sep 22, 2022

A square but satisfying social justice drama...

| Sep 22, 2022