The overall capacity of the able and honest heart of “Fathers and Daughters” is a winning quality that the cynics can choose to discount all they want.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2024

While this section of the movie can be both moving and powerful, a second storytelling timeline tracking the difficult life facing Jake's daughter (played by Amanda Seyfried) a few decades later is not so successful.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 27, 2018

Fathers And Daughters is a mawkish melodrama that, despite a starry cast, has little to recommend it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2017

I've always thought Russell Crowe would make a rather crazy but loving dad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2017

There are no car chases, super heroes or explosions in 'Fathers & Daughters.' Just lots of bravery, tenderness and tears.

| Jul 10, 2016

Might as well have been titled "Daddy Issues: The Movie."

| Jul 8, 2016

Well-acted drama about emotional trauma has sex, drinking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2016

If it didn't so obviously want to be a Serious Adult Drama, leaned into its own melodrama with zest, it could have been pretty good.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 8, 2016

As the movie jounces along on florid pronouncements that overstate the obvious, "Fathers and Daughters" defies credibility and insults the intelligence.

| Jul 7, 2016

Before excess suffocates the movie, there's a sharp sense of loss that carries significant power, almost able to buttress the entire effort.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2016

"Fathers and Daughters" juggles too many plotlines ...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 7, 2016

A cloying, on-the-nose family drama that fails to pack an emotional punch.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2016

It's extremely saccharine and obvious in its progression.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2016

Fathers And Daughters attacks the base urge for sentimental gratification as though it were on a suicide mission.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2016

The word for Fathers and Daughters is anguish-for everyone on the screen and in the audience, too.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 6, 2016

Fathers and Daughters would be a far more intriguing film if it painted Katie as something more than a quick psychological study and didn't rely on sexist platitudes.

| Jul 6, 2016

The film's weird reformulation of the Electra complex is nothing short of a sexist fantasy of salvation.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 5, 2016

A sensitive drama about cutting loose a cumbersome emotional ball and chain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2016

Sad and soapy.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 2, 2016

Despite a starry cast it's just another cloying sap fest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2016