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48 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 2 out of 26
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    This joyous film, which confronts pain, loss and transgression with love, wisdom and forgiveness amid inspired humor, has it all.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    75
    Most of the right laughs in most of the right places and some unexpected ones thrown in.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    In the end, it's simple warmth and sincerity that make this ensemble piece so disarming.
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  4. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    75
    Modest, tasty, and it goes down easy, like home cooking.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    70
    Manages to be profound without being pompous.
  6. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    70
    Everything leading up to the finale is funny and often heartfelt.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: John Petrakis
    63
    A hit and miss proposition, with an abundance of laughs and emotional highlights to help brighten the dimly lit corners of cliche-mongering.
  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Sara Wildberger
    63
    Strolls from high sentiment to low humor without a stumble, but without reaching any great depth or height.
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  9. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    63
    More a grab-bag of loosely connected scenes and lives than a film with a firm sense of direction.
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  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    You are left with the feeling that its excesses notwithstanding, it knows its chosen terrain.
  11. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    60
    You're hard-pressed to dislike the film.
  12. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    58
    Cranks up the hysteria to screechy sitcom levels.
  13. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    It might work on video for viewers who glance up at the screen from time to time. The more attention you pay to it, the less it's there.
  14. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    The cartoonish characters and outsize performances don't make a smooth transition from stage to screen.
  15. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    It's reduced to glorified refereeing of family squabbles discomfortingly magnified by his frequent use of close-ups.
  16. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    50
    The whole thing's as phony as a funeral oration from a pastor who never knew the deceased.
  17. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lael Loewenstein
    50
    Uneven but generally well-acted.
  18. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    42
    What slays them in the second balcony, though, flattens on the screen.
  19. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    41
    The characters and their dilemmas are never convincing.
  20. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Stephen Miller
    40
    Chanteuse Toni Braxton, making her feature film debut as Juanita, a snobbish Slocumb relative, delivers a scene-stealing turn.
  21. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    40
    So many stars means so little room for character and plot.
  22. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Edward Crouse
    40
    Demands high tolerance for low comedy.
  23. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Gemma Files
    40
    Not even Goldberg's near-flawless central performance can polish Kingdom Come beyond mere soap opera pap.
  24. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    40
    Satisfying in small ways.
  25. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    25
    The characters are tired stereotypes, the sentimentality nauseating and the situation comedy way below the standards of the very worst WB or UPN shows.
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  26. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    20
    A succession of shrill overacting jobs.
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