With two simple words G.K. Chesterton sums up our collective sin nature that prevents this earth from becoming the utopia Shadyac and his experts envision.

| Dec 14, 2018

The only revelation here is that a terrible filmmaker is a terrible filmmaker, regardless of genre or subject matter.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

a well-meaning metaphysical inquiry that hits all the right sentiments but manages precious little substance

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2012

Whatever leaps of logic yawn in the film's poorly cobbled-together arguments are papered over by its wash of button-pushing images, from regimented soldiers and deadly explosions to flocks of wild geese and sunbeams breaking through the clouds.

| Dec 13, 2011

Unfortunately, while Shadyac the person may have gone through a life-altering transformation, Shadyac the director hasn't improved much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 2011

It's admirably optimistic -- and it's hard to argue with free hugs -- but the world is a whole lot more complex than Shadyac seems to realize.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 1, 2011

The feature-film equivalent of one of those 'Coexist' bumper stickers -- you know, the ones where the 'X' is a Star of David, the 'O' is a peace sign, and so on.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 16, 2011

a sweet movie, but an extremely slight one that seems not to notice the banality of its no doubt profoundly felt, anti-materialist worldview ...

| Original Score: 85/100 | May 15, 2011

Looking for proof that humans are hard-wired for compassion and altruism? Look no further.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2011

Despite some beautiful travel photography from cameraman Roko Belic and swift editing by Jennifer Abbott, "I Am" remains a personal diary that leaves the casual moviegoer out of the experience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2011

I believe Shadyac had a meaningful epiphany. I'm not sure it's that meaningful for the rest of us.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2011

I Am is looking for a little bit of hope in this world. Happily, it finds some. A great deal actually.

| Apr 29, 2011

An open heart can be a recipe for ridicule, particularly in a culture where consumption is mistaken for a moral imperative.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2011

Happily, the frisky Shadyac does not sermonize. He is a puckish Sherpa to the frontiers of science and faith.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2011

The truth is that Shadyac's dumb comedies have probably done a lot more to bring happiness to humanity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2011

It's hard to decide what rankles most: what an astonishing monument to Shadyac's self-absorption I Am is, or how flat-out bad -- incompetent, even -- the filmmaking is.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 22, 2011

A well-intentioned documentary that is just too unfocused, scattered, and philosophically thin to matter.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 22, 2011

"I Am" will probably remind you of a Michael Moore movie and of the fluff-ball documentary "What the Bleep," but it's better than that makes it sound.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2011

I'm not an ideal viewer for a documentary like "I Am," which involves the ingestion of Woo Woo in industrial bulk. When I see a man whose mind is being read by yogurt, I expect to find that man in a comedy starring, oh, someone like Jim Carrey.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2011

A film about this problem should have some larger point to make, some narrative to construct, something personal to tell us. This film has only whiffs of each.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2011