Going My Way Reviews
Christopher Lloyd croons about this musical dramedy starring Bing Crosby as a change agent priest.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2024
A perfectly fine feel-good film that came out in the midst of World War II.
| Jun 27, 2023
Recommended to those who seek an evening of entertainment within cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
| Sep 1, 2022
Crosby, by a performance both sincere and endearing, once again shows what a good actor he can be. But the star of the film is Barry Fitzgerald, who as the aging, querulous, eccentric priest gives an impression of life and character rare on the screen.
| Aug 10, 2022
As the film focuses on resolutions for all the characters after the primary contention, it becomes evident that the finale carries on far too long.
| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 5, 2020
So interested in the individual moments that it feels like it has no larger-scale structure than the individual scene.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2020
For most of its length, however, Going My Way is comedy -- the very best kind of comedy, which springs from an intelligent and encompassing love of its theme.
| Feb 5, 2020
Every other blue moon a picture comes along that sends the most ulcerous and dyspeptic moviegoer dancing and singing into the street. Such a screen drama is Going My Way.
| Feb 5, 2020
The film is excellent in every way -- acting, production, and evangelical outlook.
| Feb 5, 2020
It is a slice of life, illuminated by those flashes of rich detail by which McCarey so often makes beauty out of the commonplace.
| Feb 5, 2020
[Bing Crosby's] best film. [Full review in Spanish]
| Sep 16, 2019
Crosby will send many a humble cinema-goer away with a new respect for his local parson.
| Feb 16, 2019
Although writer/producer/director Leo McCarey bagged three Oscars for this effortless piece of Catholic whimsy, its enduring charm rests with the Oscar-winning performances of Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2015
It makes you feel happy. And that's not nothing.
| Feb 18, 2015
Paramount may have made a more appealing, more tenderly human and amusing picture than "Going My Way," during its many years of film-making, but if so, I have missed it.
| Feb 17, 2015
Gooey, warm, comfortable.
| Jan 13, 2011
There's nothing special or memorable about this overlong endeavor, the first of two motion pictures to feature Bing Crosby's insufferably noble Father Chuck O'Malley.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 31, 2010
It offers, in the performance of nutcracker-faced, 56-year-old Barry Fitzgerald, the finest, funniest and most touching portrayal of old age that has yet reached the screen.
| Feb 17, 2009
Feel-good religious drama wasn't going my way, but it's hard to resist such good-hearted schmaltz.
| Original Score: B- | Mar 4, 2008
Major thread of gaiety runs through the proceedings, and McCarey has liberally sprinkled sparkling individual episodes along the way for cinch audience reaction.
| Jan 28, 2008