Inspiring without sinking into sentimentality or cliché, Hearts in Atlantis is a coming of age story that has nothing to do with sexual rites of passage or mystical quests and everything to do with the gaining of wisdom and self-esteem ...

| Nov 18, 2023

Anthony Hopkins uses his casual intelligence to deflect a dung-storm of sentimental hocus-pocus.

| Oct 15, 2019

Above average coming of age story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

A movie that says we might as well pack it in as soon as we turn 18 is more bitter than bittersweet.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 17, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

What happened to the prodigious vitality of Scott Hicks (Shine): His third feature sugffers from the same stifling artistic treatment that his second did, and this one is based on stories by Stephen King!

| Original Score: C | Dec 4, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Hicks' film is a beautiful trifle, a neat trick of light and sound to coax empathy

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 27, 2005

If good cinematographers are 'panning for gold' with their camera lens, Sobocinski has put his pan in the river and come back with a fortune.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 6, 2004

Hearts in Atlantis is a leap of faith with nothing on the other side.

| Original Score: .5 | Jul 16, 2004

Hearts feels more like a puzzle whose pieces don't fit together and whose picture, were it to be properly assembled, signifies nothing.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2003

The film has a lot of nice little touches going for it, and while there are the obligatory moments of heartstring plucking underscored by the stir of violins, it never really overdoes things. The only problem is, it's just been so done already.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2003

You'll still come away from Hearts in Atlantis wanting to read the book, but had Hicks and Goldman got it right, you would've run straight from the cinema to buy it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 5, 2003

While this film has the potential to be either a heartwarming coming-of-age story or a tense psychological thriller, it doesn't really achieve either goal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Hopkins continues to turn in one lackluster performance after another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2003

This movie invokes a sense of nostalgia and a yearning for those childhood friends who, as we grow older, may be forgotten but will never be replaced.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 17, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002