Binder does an excellent job of creating interesting characters with compelling stories and sprinkles in some humorous moments. The characters are given life by a talented cast.

| Nov 21, 2019

Binder's screenplay is a thing of gentle beauty, and indeed so is the film as a whole.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Mike Binder likes to fatten up his movies with side stories... These asides are distracting and enjoyable if a little flabby in places. This detracts from what is mostly a thoughtful, even stupefying study/comedy of human frailty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Mike Binder, a director of 온라인카지노추천-sized smarm, continues to dismantle his own best effects

| Aug 27, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

A personal drama made accessible by Binder's unusual touch.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 26, 2008

It's a gripping and very sad glimpse at grief and it's lasting effects on us when we truly lose something we cherish...

| Jun 16, 2008

The main problem is Reign Over Me always skirts around the issue instead of tackling it head on. Depression and loss are hell, and hopefully friends can be there to bring you out of it.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 3, 2008

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Like the characters populating it, this film leaves us with a sense that something is missing, but it's still smart, compelling, offbeat, and worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 73/100 | Oct 16, 2007

Pretty much a run-of-the-mill carbon copy of Rain Man.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 27, 2007

Has its heart in the right place, and its message that everyone should be able to grieve in their own time is admirable, but Mr. Binder doesn't have enough to say to sustain the film's running time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Performances by Sandler and Cheadle give the film enough of what it needs in order to recommend it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 25, 2007

This is a rather glossy confection, extremely well performed, in which everyone's problems are perfectly resolved.

| Apr 28, 2007

This film manages to be not just bearable, but on occasion actually quite affecting.

| Apr 20, 2007

Without Sandler, Reign Over Me would be a gloopy, post-9/11 love-in, making cavalier use of a fine but helpless cast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2007

It's as if 9/11 was simply coopted to bring an extra weight to a script that couldn't be trusted to deliver on its own.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2007

A self-indulgent addition to American cinema's post-9/11 cinema, Reign Over Me sees Sandler over-reaching himself in a straight-faced role.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2007

Cheadle's finest hour and proof that Sandler can act. Funny, sad and flawed - like its characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2007

Has a good heart, and does some things very well, but may bore passive audiences

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 19, 2007