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

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | 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

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

The Tic Code is badly lit and at times, awkwardly inspirational, yet there's real feeling in it.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2000

Starts out self-consciously but gets better as it goes along, winding up as affecting as it is illuminating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Ms. Draper's taut, self-effacing, extremely quiet performance is the best thing about the movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The Tic Code is as cute as Tyrone and Miles' spasms, as rote as the melismatic instrumentals that turn up in the movie's nightclubs.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This is the loving accomplishment of The Tic Code, to open a door onto the deepest kind of understanding.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000