It has plenty of star power, but no real oomph.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2024

The Miracle Club only aims to find comfort and kindness, as if its movie goal is to be consumed on rainy afternoons under the warm company of a plush blanket. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2024

The Miracle Club is honest and deeply felt.

| Oct 16, 2024

A cinematic empire could be built on these three actresses. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2024

The Miracle Club is far from miraculous, but Linney, Smith and Bates share just enough chemistry to justify a watch, especially for admirers of their work.

| Mar 28, 2024

...the kind of film that critics generally ignore, ridicule or damn with faint praise…yet treats both religious belief and agnosticism with equal respect…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2024

...forces Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Agnes O’Casey and Stephen Rea into predictable, cartoonish roles and ridiculous conflicts...

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 6, 2024

Thaddeus O'Sullivan's compelling look at trauma, "The Miracle Club" stars Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, and Dame Maggie Smith (formidable actors worthy of being three faces on a cinematic Mount Rushmore), all doing fine work.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 21, 2023

...an appealing premise that’s employed to hopelessly bland and forgettable effect...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 17, 2023

You come away from Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle Club not at all dissatisfied with the ride, but also with a sense that there’s a harder, darker and more necessary film beneath its sentimental surface.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2023

A legendary cast instill humanity into even the most trite scenes

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2023

It is likely to be just the tonic for viewers of a certain vintage who fancy escaping into a little old-school charm for 90 minutes.

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

Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan keeps everything light, even in the more serious moments. But there's a nicely prickly connection that emerges between the main characters, and a gentle message about forgiveness that's delivered skilfully by an adept cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2023

At 88, Smith’s comic timing is as beautifully crisp as ever, but she also gets some fierce scenes of suppressed grief over the loss of her son and one lovely scene of reconciliation with Linney that is blindingly good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2023

A needed dose of warmth as winter creeps in but unfortunate story execution lets this one down, sorry Maggie!

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2023

It’s trite and predictable stuff: the laughs are forced; the pathos is over-stewed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 15, 2023

While there’s nothing outrightly stereotypical here, The Miracle Club suffers from being both sentimental and superficial. It’s exactly the sort of film you suspect was made to cater to American, rather than Irish tastes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2023

So grab your hot water bottle, butter some toast and ease into this bland-but-sweet big screen blanket.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2023

To be honest, I was a little disappointed. It’s a solid tale about friendship, redemption and faith (or the lack of it), but nothing special.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2023

Lushly scored, The Miracle Club is gently humorous, mildly sentimental, but, thanks to its excellent cast, contains moments of real dramatic tension, and Agnes O’Casey is excellent as a vulnerable young mother.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2023