Charming family movie for tweens and up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

An unpretentiously sweet home-is-where-the-heart-is fantasy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 1, 2004

Schmaltzed up, dumbed down, bombastically-scored family drama of touchy-feely life lessons.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2003

A wholly unique family film that can moisten your eyes even while it quickens your pulse.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 1, 2003

... Michael Caine is badly miscast in this movie. I didn't believe him for one second in that role.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2003

Dvuall and Caine have such easy charm that they make this movie work, though it sags when anyone else is on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 20, 2003

Of little interest to anyone except those who thought Air Bud was too smutty.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2003

It's pretty appalling, and it's boring.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2003

Secondhand Lions manages to squander the services of seasoned vets Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, and promising newcomer Haley Joel Osment, with a tale that is dramatically false and disturbingly vicious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2003

Secondhand Lions is a movie you want to believe in -- original ideas, acclaimed actors -- but McCanlies uses too many broad strokes when subtlety and finesse would have had greater impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 19, 2003

[A] schmaltz fest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003

Lions' iron whimsy is a jackhammer on the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003

An air of contrivance and, worse, fraudulence, hangs over this gentle fantasy, despite some charming moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003

This story is so lamely conceived and presented that it's a grind.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003

One of those headed-for-cable oddities that must have sounded like a good idea at the time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003

Secondhand Lions is not a great movie, but you'd have to be an old coot not to like it at least a bit.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 19, 2003

As entertaining as it is wholesome.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2003

A gentle and sweet whimsy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2003

Secondhand Lions is made from a child's perspective, but its point of view has a glass eye.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003