This warm and funny film hits all the right notes, and nothing compares to the satisfaction that comes from watching Annie Mary triumphantly sing her heart out. She's as radiant as you knew she would be all along.

| Apr 11, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 22, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2005

Amateurish, ineptly written, poorly acted and crudely directed.

| Dec 15, 2003

If the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you, then the film is a pleasant enough dish.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 15, 2002

A frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2002

So exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming.

| Original Score: D | May 29, 2002

The movie would seem less of a trifle if Ms. Sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine.

| Original Score: C+ | May 9, 2002

By the end, I was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 3, 2002

A bit too eager to please.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2002

Beware the quirky Brit-com. They can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2002

Even Griffiths can't rescue this porridge of a picture.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2002

It is not the first time that director Sara Sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 29, 2002

Odd and weird.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 29, 2002

Very Annie-Mary is familiar but winningly funny and good-hearted.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2002

Impossible as it may sound, this film's heart is even more embracing than Monty, if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 29, 2002

Yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-Brits genre that was ushered in by The Full Monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2002

Griffiths proves she's that rare luminary who continually raises the standard of her profession.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2002

The quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by Rachel Griffiths.

| Mar 24, 2002