Unfortunately, People Like Us just isn't the fulfilling film that it very well could have been.

| Mar 10, 2021

As if the film's overblown poster art wasn't enough to clue you in, this is pure cornball crookery.

| Jul 25, 2019

Beneath the prolonged stares and hammy piano score lies an enjoyable, emotive drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Still, this is a film worth seeing and pondering the lifelong effect of parental decisions or indecisions on their children. At the root of everything is forgiveness and an ability to just get on with it.

| Sep 18, 2017

An insignificant film without personality. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 19, 2017

The movie is an appeal to the most general audience possible, lacking the necessary spark to find the right audience.

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

This all could have been resolved with a single conversation.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

these kind of movies push the buttons so hard and so shamelessly that they become annoying

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 19, 2013

Alex Kurtzman taps his family tree for enough sap to start a treacle factory.

| Original Score: D | Jun 2, 2013

( ... ) the cinematography offers domestic drama pleasures in its own right. Thank you for caring, Salvatore Totino (Cinderella Man / Any Given Sunday).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2012

There's an intriguing true story buried inside this overly structured drama, and by playing by simplistic screenwriting rules the filmmakers make everything trite and predictable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2012

People like me who prefer subtlety just won't like People Like Us.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2012

Kurtzman directs with a heavy hand and huge earnestness, but it boils down to trite platitudes about fatherhood and family.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 8, 2012

Nothing Like Us would have been more accurate.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 8, 2012

Chris Pine's alpha obnoxiousness, even when deliberate, goes a long way to render this prodigal-son drama unappetising.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2012

Engaging, enjoyable and unabashedly sentimental drama, enlivened by a strong script and tremendous performances from a superb cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2012

People like you may enjoy it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2012

The ending is not only clever, but it will have an emotional kick, too, in all but the hardest of hearts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2012

Banks makes a feisty soccer-mom, Wilde has nothing to do but look frostily on, and Pine smoulders pointlessly at everyone he meets, completely failing to suggest anything but complete vapidity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2012

No gimmicks, quirks or high-concept premise: this is one of those rare, quietly engaging films that is simply about ordinary people trying to relate to each other.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2012