Director George Miller sometimes wrings extra emotion from a story that has more than it needs, but don't let that discourage you from seeing this moving tribute to patient advocacy.

| May 9, 2023

"Lorenzo's Oil" is suddenly current again in the COVID-19 era, what with tracks leading to Big Pharma and a famed UFC commentator extolling the virtues of Ivermectin, essentially making it the Lorenzo's Oil of the 2020s.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2022

Miller imbues the film with such emotional intensity and conviction that you can't help but get caught up in their plight, cheering them on through every obstacle even as we recognize that whatever victory they may attain can only be partial.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 13, 2020

Miller finds humor and horror in medical politics. And, with surgical resolve, he cuts to the emotional quick: the drama is heartrending.

| Oct 15, 2019

It is as if we are being jollied along and made to realize, in case we weren't capable of getting there by ourselves, 'this is terribly sad', and, 'this is tremendously uplifting.'

| Jul 25, 2018

While difficult to watch, it becomes a positive, even heroic adventure, lifted by heavenly strains of music of Mozart and Mahler, Barber and Elgar...a tale of extraordinary commitment and courage.

| Apr 25, 2018

The questions this movie raises about the medical establishment, drug testing and the clash between science and compassion cannot fail to evoke the battles raging over AIDS. Lorenzo's Oil is strong medicine indeed.

| Apr 3, 2018

This curious element, inserted in a fiction that is so traditional that it seems fusty and that [director George] Miller serves with dynamism and conviction... [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 3, 2018

Intense film about a boy's fatal illness has heavy themes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2016

If any movie of recent years deserves to be called "inspirational"--a much-abused term that one hesitates to revive apart from exceptional circumstances--this one certainly does.

| Oct 7, 2012

Lumbers along worthily.

| Oct 7, 2012

Exhausting, intelligent and undeniably moving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2012

[Sarandon gives] a brave, complex performance, and the centerpiece of an emotionally searing film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2012

Sarandon ... convincingly conveys a fierceness and tenacity that is almost frightening. The character never lets up, and neither does the film.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 29, 2008

It takes time to get over Nick Nolte's "wrong" accent, but Susan Sarandon gives a marvelous performance in the George Miller-directed, fact-based drama about a family torn by the degenerative disease of their young boy. Tough but rewarding film to watch

| Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2007

The film comes over as a tour de force version of the disease-of-the-week 온라인카지노추천 movie: half scientific detective story, half domestic drama, replete with scenes of suffering.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2004