Gooding and Harris' characters are too pure and high-minded to exist in the real world. Yet the small-town sense of community and compassion they evoke is so goodhearted, the movie manages an amiable, if fleeting, rise in spirits.

| Nov 12, 2018

Lesson of kindness permeates inspiring true story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 11, 2004

Based-on- a-true-story kitschfest.

| Oct 28, 2003

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 27, 2003

[Y]et another movie that takes a mentally challenged character and turns him into this kind of deity, this saint-like mascot who everybody else learns life lessons from.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2003

Gooding once again embarrasses himself in public with a performance that knows no shame, a habit he's getting frighteningly at ease with these days.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2003

A train wreck of a film lying inert where the tracks of the Feel Good Line cross the Path of Good Intentions.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2003

Though probably well-intentioned, Radio comes off as manipulative of its audience and exploitative of the mentally challenged.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2003

Rarely have good intentions been wrapped in such a sticky package.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2003

We live in a winner-take-all culture, and Radio suggests there are more important things in life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 24, 2003

Cuba Gooding Jr. falls victim to the Nell syndrome, in which a vibrant, loquacious actor decides that the road to an Oscar nomination is to wear a slack expression and a set of Nutty Professor teeth.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2003

It's still a tear-jerker, but it doesn't make you feel like a jerk for tearing up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2003

I'm happy to report Radio is tolerable. Better than tolerable, in fact, but not much better.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Oct 24, 2003

Every once in a while human nature expresses itself in a way we can feel good about, and this is one of those times.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2003

Despite its heart-tugging machinations, there's a compelling sense of decency that drives the film, underscored at the end by footage of the real-life counterparts.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 24, 2003

After some student and parental resistance, a medley of obvious platitudes and great bathos washes over the place, and everybody is righteously lifted up where they belong.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2003

A lot better than the Muzak it threatens to be, but, ultimately, not good enough to keep our itchy fingers off the dial.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 24, 2003

Of course I should know better, but the movie had me blubbering from its first down.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2003