A blissful slice of Americana...

| Aug 16, 2022

A blissful slice of Americana...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2021

Grape makes a lasting impression with its quirky performances and bittersweet themes of hope, humility and perseverance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2021

This emphasis on character and texture is full of pleasurable rewards-especially when the astonishing DiCaprio is on-screen-and there's enough growth and compassion to keep it from being a Diane Arbus freak show come to life.

| Mar 22, 2021

Despite Depp's tender melancholy, the performers who stay with you are those who dare to crack the surface of their characters' alienation.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 22, 2021

Although DiCaprio is the one who ends up getting more attention from the public due to the enormous performance, the movie gives life to a restrained Johnny Depp. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2019

Though it takes dark twists and turns to an inevitable climax, What's Eating Gilbert Grape will leave you feeling full and satisfied with a renewed sense of the value in family.

| Jul 3, 2019

The realistic depiction of marginalized characters overcoming grief and accepting disabilities is what makes this film timeless.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 17, 2018

Gilbert Grape has body and deep flavor, but it can be wonderfully dry too.

| Jun 5, 2018

Depp is subtly winning as a man-child oblivious to his own pent-up rage. But the performance that will take your breath away is DiCaprio's.

| Mar 13, 2015

A challenging look at the ups and downs of family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Even if you have a taste as I do for movies about dysfunctional families, you may be a little put off by the Grapes.

| Feb 8, 2010

Suggests that the true heroes are those people who day by day must tend to misfits, and do so with love, tenacity and a determination not to go terminally sour in the process.

| Jun 19, 2009

It's endearingly loopy without degenerating into a carnival tent show.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2009

It's as fascinating to see DiCaprio before he became a bona fide star as it is to watch Depp at the very moment he cemented his reputation for coolness.

| Jun 19, 2009

Quite wonderful character study, great acting turns by Depp and DiCaprio, among others.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 8, 2008

There is not much plot to speak of, but the film instead presents a moody, elegiac atmosphere of longing and desperation that is powerfully tangible ....

| Jul 10, 2007

Hallstrom finds the right bittersweet tone for his dysfunctional family tale (and one of Hollywood's few films about obesity), marvelously acted by Johnny Depp and particularly Leonardo DiCaprio in his second outing as a retarded adolescent.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 29, 2007

Depp's sincere, subtle performance is certainly a big reason for the movie's success...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2006