This is a film that will inspire many, frustrate others, and simply be dismissed by even more as nothing more than a cinematic greeting card.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

The Ultimate Gift will put you in a diabetic coma.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 9, 2007

This new film moves along smoothly until Grandpa's most preposterous mission - which needlessly drags out the movie -- takes Jason to a severely caricatured Ecuador.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 22, 2007

It's Self-Help: The Movie, and it stinks to high heaven.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 21, 2007

I haven't even read the book, and I know it has to be better than the movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2007

A parabolic film about one selfish young man's spiritual transformation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2007

I think urban sophisticates can be people of faith who want to see movies, occasionally, that don't have the four-letter words, and I do embrace religion, but I think they have to be better than this.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2007

The film squeaks by on a combination of reliable old pros...and appealing newcomers...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2007

The result is a deep desire for those Hollywood execs to remember that Christian doesn't have to equal brain-dead.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 18, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2007

Veterans Garner and Brian Dennehy give convincing professional performances here, but Fuller is bland.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 17, 2007

If you missed the money-isn't-everything message, an end-credits recap outlines the story's salient points -- if you'd known, you could've skipped the rest.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Mar 17, 2007

Christian charity, in this movie, seems like a side-effect of capitalism.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2007

[James] Garner is good, and so is Brian Dennehy as a crusty ranch owner; Abigail Breslin, playing a leukemia patient, demonstrates that she was not a one-note wonder in Little Miss Sunshine.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 15, 2007

Pretty much what one would expect: a sincere story of redemption delivered with all the low-key execution of one of those Hallmark-backed 온라인카지노추천 movies of the week.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 15, 2007

The Ultimate Gift is kind of like a feel-good Saw for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.

| Original Score: C | Mar 14, 2007

Wholesome and inspirational, it preaches a simplistic "prosperity gospel."

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 11, 2007

| Original Score: B- | Mar 10, 2007

It is message filmmaking so blunt you might be tempted to root for the parasitic reprobate over the saintly old man, and that's just not right.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2007