Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2003

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 3, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2001

Egrossing, entertaining, and thoroughly conventional.

| Original Score: 71/100 | Mar 22, 2001

What makes the film engaging are the performances ... appealing secondary characters ... and occasional interventions into its soap operatic formula.

| Jan 1, 2000

It's got more genuine-seeming feelings and a more accurate take on its particular corner of the world than a colosseum of summer blockbusters.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Delightfully unsentimental, yet uplifting, and while spinning its wholly credible tale gives its audience quite a bit of knowledge and understanding about kids, an unusual disease, and the universe of jazz musicians.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Raising it above the usual clichs are the superb jazz music and a sparkling script by lead actress Polly Draper.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

For me, it's just a little too restrained, with too many false notes.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

If it seems to have the ingredients of an after-school special, the performances take it to another level. Gut level.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

An afterschool special in all but name.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Ultimately, it's Wolff who saves the day by supplying the challenging music that sets the tone for Hines and Marquette's soul-searching.

| Jan 1, 2000

A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The Tic Code works better as a sociological study than as a gripping drama. And during this summer of our discontent, that may be recommendation enough.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This is a film of marvelous performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A fairly satisfying small-scale drama with some fine musical sidelights.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Tic Code is the summer's surprise gift, a loving and humane film that rises above the season's overhyped blockbusters like a flower poking up through the concrete.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000