Only inspires me to steer clear of both hospitals and any movie that casts Robin Williams as a lovable clown.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 5, 2023

Patch Adams does serve as a platform for Williams to do what he does best: evoke laughter and wring tears. Even when the movie flatlines, Williams keeps the beat.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 4, 2023

Patch Adams is full of shit. I truly can't think of a better way to describe it.

| Feb 9, 2021

Patch Adams is offensive in the way it trots out every hoary plot device, no matter how improbable, exploitative or downright moronic.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 18, 2019

Like too many of Mr. Williams's recent movies, Patch Adams wastes the genius of a peerless clown.

| Apr 2, 2019

Comics who want to do Hamlet often end up, as here, serving big, sticky slices of ham.

| Apr 1, 2019

The pat manipulation of emotions comes with a dangerously high level of saccharin. But anyone who's ever felt aggrieved by impersonal treatment from the medical establishment will enjoy Williams's system-bucking antics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Shadyac underscores Williams' comic routines with superfluous and frankly relentless reaction shots of patients and hospital staff alike crumpling with laughter.

| Jun 18, 2012

True-story medical tale is made shallow and sentimental.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2010

Indulges to the hilt every obnoxious, hyperactive, oh-what-I-wouldn't-give-for-a-tranquilizer-gun aspect of Robin Williams' performing style.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2009

Williams pulls out all the stops in a lead role that gives him carte blanche to careen between extremes of silliness and sentimentality; he tries too hard, too obviously, much like the pic itself.

Full Review | May 20, 2008

Has obviously been made for an audience that has never seen a movie before.

| Original Score: F | Aug 18, 2007

An overdose of sentimental claptrap, underscored by Marc Shaiman's clichd string arrangements.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2003

...Formulaic from the word go, with so many trite, overused devices that it could serve as a primer for 'things to avoid when making an original movie.'

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

...infuriating because it divides the world into fun-loving rebels and uptight establishment-types

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jul 31, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Watching Patch Adams is like being bedridden and suffering the further indignity of a caregiver who is self-righteous and thinks he's a comedian.

| Mar 24, 2002

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 19, 2002

The true story of a Virginia medical student who breaks all the rules by daring to proclaim that the best medicine for patients is love, laughter and play.

| Mar 3, 2002