“For adults and older adolescents, this is a lovely, extraordinarily touching film that conveys an admirable picture of filial devotion, self-sacrifice, faith, good sportsmanship and universal fellowship.”
“We've seen it before. The buddies of a painfully shy, awkward guy?who has never had a girlfriend?help him find true love. But this latest incarnation ? is relentlessly vulgar and frequently offensive, even beyond the false premise that there's something intrinsically wrong with an unmarried man being sexually inexperienced.”
“I know he's met with the governor already on this project, which in turn is an important portion of it because the state has $15 million invested in the performing arts center,”
“There was one particularly heart-stopping moment when Joaquin Phoenix walked into Mass on Christmas Eve after a fire, and it was a beautiful moment. It couldn't have lasted more than 20 or 30 seconds, but it made you forget how little of that there is in movies today.”
