Miracles from Heaven is manipulative, blunt, super-Christian propaganda that's dignified and deeply moving in its own way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2016

To have it suddenly blatantly preach to the converted and to the converted alone is a missed opportunity of massive proportions, making watching Miracles from Heaven at all a serious waste of time.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2016

Miracles From Heaven aims for faith-based audiences, and its narrow focus keeps the film's message of possibility and positivity from wider viewers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 2, 2016

What a strange film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 9, 2016

No heathen is going to be persuaded by a film that holds back its revelations until all but the already-convinced have left.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2016

By and large, the film is drippy kitsch, alternating between sub-Terrence Malick​ images of everyday "miracles" and forced, feeble attempts at comic relief.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 25, 2016

The only true miracle that emerges out of all of this is Garner's performance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2016

The kindness of average mortals is far more comforting than the stuff that involves bright lights. If only the film threw more of its weight behind believing in people.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2016

You can't endear when you're subtly insulting, and Miracles From Heaven's otherwise good intentions are lost in its confusing mix of uplifting spirituality and judgment.

| Original Score: D- | Mar 17, 2016

It is a movie by believers, about believers, for believers, to the exclusion of all else, custom-tailored for private church-group showings.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 17, 2016

Riggen has no shame when it comes to jerking the tears, and sometimes her manipulations work even on the hardest of hearts... One thing she should probably work on is the comedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2016

It's a good Christian film that plays to its audience and preaches the importance of neighborly values.

| Original Score: B | Mar 16, 2016

The question is never what will happen to 10-year-old Anna (Kylie Rogers), who suffers a bloated belly and chronic pain. The only issue is how long she, and the audience, will have to wait to find out.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 16, 2016

Miracles from Heaven wrings this story for everything it's worth, and is ultimately saved from mawkishness by the utter believability of Garner's performance as a mother who would do anything to save her daughter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2016

The movie never allows [Garner] to truly plumb the depth of her character's despair, which would have made the uplift of its message all the more effective.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 16, 2016

Miracles From Heaven occasionally wags a told-you-so finger at nonbelievers. But in a genre that tends to hector and bludgeon, that's some kind of improvement.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2016

This is not a film, at least as most filmmakers and audiences imagine the form. This is proselytizing, pure and simple.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 16, 2016

The sweet sincerity of Miracles From Heaven makes it hard to dislike.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2016

Riggen effectively creates a sense of how intimidating hospitals and medical procedures are for a child, often shooting from Anna's perspective. The emphasis on Anna and Christy's experience of these trials is a smart choice.

| Mar 16, 2016

I constantly had the sense I was witnessing a formulaic Hallmark Channel-type approach that really did not elevate this genre in any new ways.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2016