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

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

Director Mike Binder has twigged on to the fact that if you root Sandler's genially churlish moron act into a more sober foundation, a vulnerable, believable and even lovable character can begin to emerge.

| Apr 19, 2007

Worth anyone's time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2007

The film is slick when it needs to be raw, tidy when it needs to sprawl, and amorphous when it needs to focus.

| Mar 26, 2007

For all its flaws, Reign Over Me is still surprisingly affecting.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 24, 2007

Binder's insistence on pitching everything at the level of either sitcom shenanigans or movie-of-the-week weepiness compromises any significance the subject matter might have.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Mar 24, 2007

This is not a simple, uplifting tale. It's never clear whether Charlie will fully recover, and that sense of realism is the film's strength.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

At the very least, it puts a whole new spin on Billy Madison.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

There's something creepy about peddling such ideas without thinking through their moral or intellectual downside.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Reign Over Me isn't nearly as arresting as it should be given its powerful subject matter.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Mike Binder's oddball film keeps retreating into fantasy -- as if to avoid precisely the kind of issues that have kept the studios from confronting the legacy of 9/11.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Cheadle is good, as always, but Sandler's portrayal of a guy on the perennial brink of a psychotic breakdown is amazing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Movies about male friendship are often trivialized with the 'buddy' tag, but this one resonates beyond that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2007

It's a tough ride, but worth it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Reign Over Me drizzles down on us for two full hours, persistently determined to prove that, if it hangs around long enough, a coherent movie will turn up. No such luck.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Director-writer and former Detroiter Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger) has always had a great movie in him, and it bursts out, emotionally, dramatically, sometimes sloppily yet always honestly, in Reign Over Me.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 23, 2007

A sentimental journey of solitude and friendship.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007