Glenn Close’s face teems with a flawlessly controlled gravitas that’s completely at odds with the film’s ordinariness.
Its thinly veiled message of social conservatism and religious affirmations as the pathway to an ideal life is delivered with all the predigested sentimentality of a Hallmark card.
A veritable romper-room presentation of this lovable (or, for some, insistently love-craving), reflexive musical comedy.
One can practically hear the Oscar telecast’s orchestral music cuing up at the close of Robert Duvall’s every scene in Get Low.
Duck is an inexplicable study of hangdogitis, at once unwatchable and endearingly embarrassed.
The Ultimate Gift is so resolutely “good for you” that watching it is a lot like eating Brussels sprout.
The story attempts to tap into the sense of extraordinary childhood wonder that typified Amazing Stories.