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My Sister's Keeper

2009

Nick Cassavetes

Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Jason Patric ...

6.9

11,394

Drama. Romance Kate is a 15 year old girl who is battling cancer. Diagnosed at the age of seven with acute promyelocytic leukemia, Kate's mother, Sarah (Cameron Diaz), quits her job as a lawyer to tend to her daughter.

	Author	Review
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"If you're going to make a weepy, there's no reason you can't make it with intelligence and insight as the makers of My Sister's Keeper have done. (...) It allows for nuances and takes time to focus this story of an illness on all the people it affects."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Unsubtle, uneven and undeniably effective, (...) a mere pretext for a full-scale assault on the viewer's tear ducts."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'My Sister's Keeper' takes on a very tough subject, but ultimately it is too soft, too easy, and it dissolves like a tear-soaked tissue"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'My Sister’s Keeper' is an immediate audience-grabber (...) [The screenplay] is admirable in trusting us to figure things out (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is a film that looks like a feature-length infomercial for some prescription medication which should, in a sane world, be taken off the market (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"All the actors (...) are very good (...) [It] works as a ritual as much as it does art (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The infuriating cop–out ending reduces the premise to mush (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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