...Washington offers up a consistently spellbinding turn that goes a long way towards smoothing over the narrative’s bumps and lulls...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2024

I liked this movie but some of the performances like Eddie Griffin threw the tone off a bit. But all in all, Denzel does such a great job in this film and does everything he can to carry it to the finish line.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2022

Denzel carries this movie on his back, which saves the movie from fully drowning. It should've been a great Denzel movie but because of its flaws, it is just "ok".

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2022

If you happen to be into movies like Die Hard and think the American insurance reimbursement system is full of s---, it's an immensely satisfying experience.

| Apr 7, 2021

Thought-provoking. Too intense for young teens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 17, 2009

A hokey and often silly commentary about the medical industry, and corruption within the establishment.

| Apr 29, 2009

The movie comes dangerously close to saying that the solution to a personal grievance is, well, terrorism, when you get right down to it.

| Original Score: F | Sep 24, 2007

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

Social messages, simplistic action, and teary melodrama are manipulatively but unsuccessfully mixed in this picture, which tries to provide a "hard" look at an honest working-class man (Washington) who loses control while trying to save his child's life

| Original Score: C | Dec 18, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Instead of presenting the story and allowing us to draw our own conclusions, Cassavetes blatantly tells us what we should think.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2004

Washington, Woods, and Duvall are so capable, they almost save this schlock-fest from itself.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

A coercive script by James Kearns, and some middling direction by Nick Cassavetes, can't rob the movie of an undeniable, headlong crowd-pleasing power as it tackles an issue that touches us all.

| Jan 21, 2003

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

It may push more buttons than envelopes but John Q is a good old fashioned potboiler that generates ripped from the headlines heat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

An emotional, heart-wrenching story that not only takes viewers on a journey within their own souls, but also opens up their eyes to the way the health care system works.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

"Socially conscious" Denzel Washington thriller wants to tackle tough questions -- but settles for easy answers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 7, 2002