Penn never goes over the top with his speech, ticks, hand gestures, and all-around physicality. He doesn’t act like a mentally challenged man, he behaves like one: there’s a big difference between the two.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 10, 2022

Penn's performance deserved the Oscar nomination.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

Moving film with great acting seems too contrived.

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

Sean Penn gives the most professionally shameful, cruelly wrongheaded performance ever nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, while Jessie Nelson Kristine Johnson's script lives down to Penn's ugly ineptitude with idiotic catchphrases and product placement.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 25, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

And I think I am sick.

| Sep 23, 2004

| Original Score: 64/100 | Mar 16, 2004

Sean Penn may be the most gifted actor of his generation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

Just watching Penn and Fanning interact...is worth wading through the occasionally ankle-deep syrup.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

This movie plays like an after-school special or a public service announcement.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 23, 2003

This movie is every bit as painful as it sounds.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 8, 2002

A fairly formulaic (and terribly overlong) tearjerker.

| Dec 2, 2002

Penn repeatedly hits the ball out of the park, but the rest of the team never gets past first base.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2002

The script lacks focus and consistency of approach, and the whole becomes a mixture of emotional manipulation and laughable caricature.

| Oct 21, 2002

The movie asks for a leap of faith that it can't make itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 15, 2002

A supremely well-acted 온라인카지노추천 movie. But, like a lot of microwaveable insta-films, it has a capacity to taste shamefully better than it looks.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2002

Contradictory stew of anger, pain and crass commercialism.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2002