Decent performances, especially by Tomei, Carlyle and Steenburgen, can't overcome that this one time film short doesn't have enough substance to become a feature film.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 16, 2020

Yet another ballroom dancing movie presents dance as a universal balm that heals life's problems in this mildly inspired dramatic comedy.

| Original Score: C | Apr 19, 2009

Why would Frank drop everything to embark on this lunatic mission? Well, the answer is simple. If he didn't, there would be no movie - and perhaps that wouldn't have been such a bad thing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 19, 2008

A surprisingly-moving message movie about love and redemption filled with sentimental and transformational moments leading to tearjerker of a finale.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 7, 2007

A miscast hodgepodge of a genre stew.

| Mar 1, 2007

Strong performances and moving themes are drowned in a sea of sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 26, 2006

That the film was itself borne out of risk invests its message with an honesty and an authenticity more than sufficient to offset its flaws.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2006

Utterly charming.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2006

I could believe almost nothing of this under-written, over-emoted saga.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 18, 2006

the entire movie is ridiculous

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 8, 2006

This is a wildly ill-conceived jumble, and not even its impressive cast can rescue it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2006

... slight and slurry, like a champagne buzz.

Full Review | Original Score: 85/100 | Jun 2, 2006

In this death-obsessed movie, the characters' lives flash before the audience's eyes - really, really slowly.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 5, 2006

Clunky romantic comedy, which has the annoying habit of turning dead serious at exactly the wrong moment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2006

Not content to tell two lousy, maudlin stories at once, the movie goes for a full three.

| Apr 27, 2006

The movie is so bad it brings up a question %u2014 what's the opposite of a comeback film?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 27, 2006

The picture trivializes the characters, hinting at depths it can't depict, aiming at a profundity of feeling it can't begin to reach.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Beyond Wahlberg's deft moves, School's dancing is leaden, not charming, and the only challenge is enduring the film's lumbering progress until it finally clicks at the end.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

The sort of cloying, sentimental heart-tugger that would be more at home on network television than the big screen.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 21, 2006

Marilyn Hotchkiss... is a bit device driven as it flashes back and forth from Frank's lonely life to the accident that will change him forever

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 13, 2006