The drama is pretty pedestrian; the storytelling is wantonly manipulative, and I have to say that I was manipulated against my better judgment.

| Apr 30, 2024

The film’s more overtly Christian elements, including calls for divine intervention, dovetail neatly with Sharon’s yearning to be held, supported and, ultimately, forgiven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2024

The performances are solid and the story is touching — and perhaps that will carry this to its chosen audience. But it's a little flat for true drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2024

Taken on its own terms as an old-fashioned character drama and showcase for Ritchson as a dramatic actor (he’s genuinely really good), it does the job it set out to do.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2024

On the other hand, although the approach to things may be too simplistic, the double Oscar winner Hilary Swank holds the entire scaffolding with her excellent performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 27, 2024

If you want a better made version of a faith-based film, this could serve as that.

| Mar 22, 2024

Ordinary Angels takes the faith-based melodrama and injects it with the kind of empathetic energy that could wring tears from even the most godless among us.

| Mar 1, 2024

The dialogue is as simple as mud, but you can’t ignore the value of a film that finally makes you feel good about the world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2024

The character’s motivations don’t gel and no amount of Swank moxie can make it work.

| Feb 24, 2024

I can’t think of a single plot development that will surprise you and sometimes that’s OK. Sometimes it’s enough to sit back and settle in for a Comfort Viewing Movie...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2024

Ordinary Angels is a true story and a remarkable one at that. Living with our two-year old granddaughter has made me especially vulnerable to dramas about young children in peril, and it didn’t take long for this one to open my tear ducts

| Feb 23, 2024

Just because we know where a movie is going does not mean we don’t enjoy getting there.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2024

This is unambiguously a faith-based film, but it’s one that places its faith in people instead of a higher power. That doesn’t make it good, but it does make it an interesting change of pace.

| Original Score: C | Feb 23, 2024

Luckily Swank is on hand, almost singlehandedly raising the material to a level that keeps you wanting to watch. And sometimes, for a good cry at the movies, that’s really all you need.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 23, 2024

Despite its bona fides, the movie's narrative and characterizations practically gorge on clichés.

| Feb 22, 2024

No magic tricks, no ulterior motives, just the strength of people working together toward a common goal. It doesn't always happen like that, but "Ordinary Angels" is a gentle reminder that it sure is nice when it does.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 21, 2024

“Ordinary Angels” has some of the feeling of an after school special, because it’s a heartwarming movie in which everybody is nice. But it’s more well-made than most.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 21, 2024

A do-good story about two lost souls who learn to understand and appreciate each other while the community around them comes together to achieve something that goes beyond their individual needs. This one earns its wings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 21, 2024

This film starring Hilary Swank as a Kentucky hairdresser who rallies her community on behalf of a widower and his seriously ill three-year-old daughter proves irresistible with its powerful feel-good story.

| Feb 20, 2024

What lifts the picture beyond average inspirational fluff is the way director Jon Gunn and company control the slow release of its sweetness so as not to overpower. Even cynics will be won over by the human kindness on display.

| Feb 20, 2024