Sam and Kate is a deeply unassuming dramedy that offers no great revelations about the human condition, but doesn’t intend to. It’s lightly poignant fodder made for adult viewers weary of spectacle

| Aug 11, 2023

As you'd expect from generations of Hollywood royalty, it's beautifully acted throughout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2023

Dull conversations and lackluster scenes prevent Sam & Kate from being the great romantic dramedy that it wants to be. The acting is admirable though, and the film's best moments make up for any flaws. The movie is better at depicting grief than romance.

| Dec 7, 2022

This is pretty good. I would say the casting is a trick, but it's a natural.

| Nov 30, 2022

Parents and kids working together adds to an overall sense of niceness that suffuses Sam and Kate as its characters sort through challenges many people face in an ordinary world.

| Nov 30, 2022

No one wears a cape, but all four of these people, says LeGallo, who wrote the script, are heroes. They’ve survived to this point overcoming personal obstacles. Now fate brings them together and it’s not as obvious as you might think.

| Nov 22, 2022

Two generations of talent provide the warmth and charm for this enjoyable romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 18, 2022

There’s a sweetness to the story that doesn’t overwhelm but there’s also more than a couple of narrative contrivances that simply don’t ring true.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Nov 16, 2022

The storyline may make it a fine choice for adult children to watch with their parents or grandparents, but there's not much here to entertain teens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2022

It’s good to see a couple of family members working so closely together and it’s nice to see that such great actors as Hoffman and Spacek have inspired their children.

| Nov 15, 2022

There's nothing terribly original going on here, but writer-director Darren Le Gallo and his ace cast infuse the film with the charm of a comfy armchair by a cracking fireplace.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 15, 2022

Hoffman, Spacek (and their kids) enliven sweet, but slight, generational romance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2022

Dustin Hoffman & Sissy Spacek unfortunately are not playing the title characters. Their instant, natural chemistry cannot be replicated by their real-life children whose roles are too awkwardly distant to survive a shift into a hoarder storyline.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 14, 2022

Predictable, mawkish and shallow relationship feel-good family drama.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 14, 2022

“Sam & Kate” may be the cinematic equivalent of comfort food, but there’s a reason people seek out comfort food – it makes them feel good, and “Sam & Kate” sure will make you feel good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Better with the in-between moments...When the chaacters are just interacting quietly they convey a great deal and the events interrupt the delicacy of those scenes.

| Original Score: B | Nov 11, 2022

... doesn’t give the parallel courtships much depth or complexity, although there are snippets where all four actors shine, particularly in its portrayal of seniors finding love.

| Nov 11, 2022

In naming the film Sam & Kate instead of Bill & Tina, Le Gallo seems to have been trying to pass the baton from one generation to the next, but he forgot to come up with a good story in the process.

| Nov 11, 2022

Mother and daughter Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk are mother and daughter opposite Dustin Hoffman and Jake Hoffman. Perfs are solid and while a bit dour, the film offers gentle respite from the noise of provocative, demanding awards season entries.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2022

These lessons are all fine and good, but it takes well over an hour into the 110-minute run time for “Sam & Kate” to reveal any conflict worth paying attention to.

| Nov 11, 2022