Moving film with great acting seems too contrived.

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

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

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

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

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

Contradictory stew of anger, pain and crass commercialism.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2002

It's a sensational performance, and [Penn] illumines a movie that sometimes seems in danger of descending into modish Hollywood political correctness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 20, 2002

Nelson plumbs the enormous sentiment quota with the relentless persistence of an oil well drill until it erupts in a syrupy geyser.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2002

On one level, I Am Sam is a crock, but on another, more vital one, it's very, very sweet.

| Mar 22, 2002

Plays out in such a conventional manner that it feels like a 온라인카지노추천 movie of the week from the '70s.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2002

We're in the land of "minority or disabled people as magical healers," and that is never a healthy place to be for too long.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2002

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 27, 2002

It's a well-written and exceptionally well-acted tearjerker.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 26, 2002

For a movie that probes the sensitive issue of living with reduced mental capacity, are the creators of Bambi the obvious choice?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 25, 2002

A well-intentioned but ludicrous tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 25, 2002

The kind of movie so punishingly sweet -- and intellectually vapid -- it should come with a blood sugar alert.

| Jan 25, 2002

So drenched in sweetness that it's devoid of reality, and so free of leavening flavors that, despite some good performances, it's ultimately sickening.

| Jan 25, 2002

Deserves to be remembered for Sean Penn's remarkable performance as a mentally challenged man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2002

The movie's magic is that we feel more rewarded than manipulated.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2002

Attaches a vastly overqualified company to a soggy, flamboyantly manipulative script.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 25, 2002

Wears its heart on its sleeve but keeps its brains in its pocket.

| Jan 25, 2002