Seven Pounds

"Some people will find it emotionally manipulative. Some people like to be emotionally manipulated. I do, when it's done well (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"May be 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. I would tell you to go out and see it for yourself, but you might take that as a recommendation" 

"The film's Italian director does achieve in his second American outing a pleasing blend of Hollywood professional sheen and European sensitivity to character details and nuances." 

"It takes the soggy cake for multiple layers of sentimentality topped by indigestible grandiosity." 

"An endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head. Intricately constructed so as to infuriate anyone predominantly guided by rationality and intellect." 

"A Will Smith movie through and through, geared more toward uplift than any serious consideration of mortality and sacrifice. For a time, though, it fools viewers into thinking it's something more" 

"It affirms life as something enormous and important, not small, not meaningless, but monumental and worthy of big statements."