...a lackadaisical yet mostly compelling drama...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2024

Liotta and Hulce are so good, it's impossible to decide who is best. Because of them, [Dominick and Eugene] should be watched and admired. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2022

Dominick and Eugene drips with pathos. Tears are required by the end of the first reel. They got yawns instead from me.

| May 4, 2022

Dominick and Eugene is every bit as icky as its premise would suggest, and possibly even more so. The film is a heavy, clanging guilt machine that functions by systematically exploiting Nicky's handicap.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 17, 2018

The film's shameless efforts to reach for the jugular mainly land in bathos.

| Oct 17, 2018

Most of the time Young manages to deal subtly with the emotions, and in these moments the film is affecting and sincere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2018

Overly sentimental perhaps, but grippingly compassionate and superbly played by the two leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2018

Taking potentially sticky material...Young has held a hard line and has shaped a story of relationships that rings pure and fine as crystal.

| Oct 17, 2018

That it achieves its goals in ways that are entertaining and engrossing and not preachy or didactic is a credit to director Robert M Young and his writers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 17, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2008

Terrific performances......sweet as honey

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2006

Young's socially-concerned drama is unafraid of tackling complex emotional issues, but what few patronising and hackneyed insights it offers are waved like red flags. Unsophisticated.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2003

About a developmentally disabled young man and his compassionate brother.

| Jul 15, 2003

Well-meaning and successful in its portrayal of people coping with disability and the guilt this raises in everyone affected, and despite admirable performances... [it's] nevertheless sometimes unsubtle and occasionally overstated.

| May 24, 2003

As directed by Robert M. Young, ''Dominick and Eugene'' has a refreshing plainness and a welcome unwillingness to milk the story for more pathos than is warranted.

| May 20, 2003

"fine acting holds the attention"

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2002

While Dominick and Eugene certainly is not a terrible movie, there's very little that will stay with you once the end credits start to roll.

Full Review | Original Score: 64/100 | Jan 21, 2002