It's good to see [Marc Webb] back working on more intimate material, even though Gifted isn't entirely satisfactory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Gifted is not your run-of-the-mill melodrama. More like an exceptional melodrama. It still plays the violin, if you get what I mean, but the violinist is skilful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2017

Gifted gives glorified 온라인카지노추천 movies a better name.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2017

Emotional manipulation gets a bad press. But, hey, sometimes being milked for tears is fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2017

There's enough believable chemistry between Evans and Grace for it all to work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2017

Films that are so good in so many ways do not come around very often.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2017

It disappointingly gets tangled up in plot contrivances, and the real issue of gifted children is just a gooey fantasy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2017

Evans's dependable charisma and Grace's defiant odd-duck quality just about keep the basic story afloat, but only just.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2017

Here it is. The future of mainstream Hollywood cinema. A place where not only do comic book blockbusters and superhero movies dominate the children's film category, but they inevitably bleed into, and infect, "grown-up" cinema too.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2017

This is a benign and good natured film. Even at the most oppressive moments, there will always be a wisecrack. The smart ass humour here is crucial. Without it, the film would have risked seeming too dry and too maudlin by turns.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2017

A warm and heartfelt story that will be perfect for a quiet afternoon at the pictures.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2017

Warm and heartfelt performances from the two principals are undercut by a formula that too readily reveals the outcome. Interesting workings fail to fully add up. Must do better next term.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2017

Gifted may not have anything particularly enlightening to say about raising a precocious child, but as a tear jerker/crowd pleaser, it more than gets the job done.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 20, 2017

Gifted won me over, body and soul, and the only thing I wanted to do when it came to an end was to find a way to watch it again right that very second.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2017

The central question of Gifted is handled without much nuance, and while the film pulls on heartstrings, the clumsy storytelling lacks impact.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 14, 2017

As scripted, Evelyn is too vicious to be persuasive, and Flynn undercuts her morally by stressing her lust for recognition.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2017

Gifted is a charming, deeply human film, so much so that complaining about its often well-trod plot points strikes me as downright curmudgeonly.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 13, 2017

A formulaic and manipulative tearjerker that is really nothing more than a woman's picture from a man's point of view.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2017

"Gifted" is an engaging comedy-drama that avoids becoming too much of a tearjerker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2017

The film's heroine is extraordinarily gifted. The film itself, not so much.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 10, 2017