| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"Lord, please stop this increasingly fine actor from climbing onto another cross." more... |
C |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Will Smith displays a rather impressive range of emotional speeds here." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Geoff Berkshire |
"Mystery and romance collide in Will Smith's secretive new movie." more... |
B |
E! Online
Dezhda Gaubert |
"Seven Pounds is so obsessed with its importance, in fact, it forgets to entertain." more... |
C- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...an unintentionally ludicrous drama of repentance as an extreme sport..." more... |
D |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Spiritual redemption is not a typical Hollywood theme, but this Will Smith movie shows it can be done." more... |
B |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...uses a fractured narrative to cloud an absurd plot that would probably be laughed off the screen if it were presented in a straightforward manner." more... |
C- |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"...among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." more... |
F |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The primary goal of Seven Pounds is to make viewers weep, and it pursues that aim with a doggedness that is almost commendable." more... |
B- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"It affirms life as something enormous and important, not small, not meaningless, but monumental and worthy of big statements." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a movie that plays better if you know nothing about it going in." more... |
B+ |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...unabashedly emotional and cautiously hopeful." more... |
B- |
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