| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

Harrison Ford still retains enough of his old movie star magic to ramp up the electricity a bit when he's onscreen, but this only makes you want to see him do something that makes better use of his gifts. Brendan Fraser just seems to grow bigger over the

| Mar 2, 2010

Soapy and unemotional, this makes a hash of an interesting true story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Moderately illuminating in parts, but the clich (C)s of cinematic suffering tend to overwhelm it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Harrison Ford is the clich (C) of a scientist who cares more for equations than humans, and works to atrocious rock music. The child actors are cloying in their cuteness. A serious subject drowned by sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Fraser's blandness makes for a deeply uninteresting fit with Ford's supposedly adorable grumpiness. Very ordinary.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Vaughan and scriptwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs have plumped for the ~one man against all odds(TM) plotline, the most reassuringly inoffensive of narrative archetypes.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2010

The acting is good, the true-story imprimatur a help. The movie ends with clasped hands, brimming tears and inspirational music pedalling the end credits. I surrender. Pass me another hankie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2010

The film's combination of gloopy sentiment, macho horns-locking and recondite enzyme research isn't a winner; and the slushy music, by Andrea Guerra, has you begging for mercy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2010

The sort of soapy schmaltz you feel dirty for watching. Frankly, if you consider this kind of sugar-coated medical tragedy entertainment, then you're the sick one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Watching it is extremely easy, and at just under two hours it gets to the point quickly never coming close to wearing out its welcome.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2010

There's something off-putting about this film's optimism: After all, how many people can afford to do what Crowley did?

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 25, 2010

It sometimes feels like one of those "disease of the week" 온라인카지노추천 movies from the 1970s.

| Jan 25, 2010

It's about as dramatically taut as your garden-variety board meeting. And it makes you realize that jerking a tear or two isn't necessarily a bad thing for a filmmaker to do, if it at least keeps your audience awake.

| Jan 25, 2010

Anyway, I cried. A lot. What can I say? I'm a sucker for kids on ventilators.

| Jan 25, 2010

Sadly, 'Get out of my lab!' is not the new 'Get off my plane!'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 23, 2010

At first glance, it feels like one of those inspirational weepies 온라인카지노추천 used to churn out, with a seasoned actress like Elizabeth Montgomery playing the flinty heroine.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Jan 22, 2010

Far from an awful film, it's merely a completely inconsequential one, forgettable in a way that used to be acceptable during the CBS Evening News on a Sunday night but isn't when you're paying modern prices for a movie ticket.

| Jan 22, 2010

Vaughan has a tendency to underline, italicize and boldface the emotion when no such emphasis is needed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2010

As the film builds to a credulity-testing climax, there is less schmaltz than you might expect from the screenwriter of Chocolat -- though the filmmakers seldom hesitate to milk the Crowley kids and other Pompe-afflicted children for tears.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2010