Radio
User Score
7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 61 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 61
  3. Negative: 10 out of 61

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  1. TarmaR.III
    Oct 30, 2003
    0
    Radio is just the same as always:You will never learn anything about the story at all.
  2. Eileen
    Dec 4, 2003
    3
    Nothing new. And emotionally empty.
  3. RadioRaheem
    Oct 24, 2003
    0
    It ain't no "Brian's Song"...
  4. Eric
    Oct 26, 2003
    2
    Total pap, pure melodrama, swelling music, tear-jerking death, meager story.
  5. NinjaMafia
    Nov 4, 2003
    4
    Huh Radio....what's wrong with that Radio?(Harry Mason, Silent Hill)I'm sorry I just couldn't resist that. Radio is about a mentally challenged kid who has to face discrimination and what not. I'm going to cut the crap and get right to the chase here. Radio is so overdramatic that it made me cringe. The actors, however, do play their roles pretty well. However, the chracters were shallower than (insert metaphor describing something thats shallow here). And my biggest complaint with this movie is how the director tried to get people to understand that Radio was being discriminated because he was mentally challenged, not black.(I'm sorry African American, yeah I know, I'm not politically correct, so sue me) He went even far enough to put a black principal in the school that discriminates against Radio just to show that it is not about his color. I fell really ripped off seeing this movie but it was either this or Good Boy and believe me, I am not in one way interested in good boy.… Expand
  6. CarlW
    Sep 11, 2004
    0
    Absolutely horrendous! African-americans are on the screen far too rarely to be subjected to an image such as the title character. There is NOTHING right in this movie. Gooding's performance is the worst seen in years.
  7. Todlf
    Jun 16, 2013
    0
    The Worst about Radio that it has the same old elements of a sports drama. It gets very boring and melodramatic from this. A BIG DISAPOINMENT FROM THIS MOVIE.

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Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 32
  3. Negative: 10 out of 32
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    40
    The cast, which includes Alfre Woodard and Debra Winger, manages to give thoughtful performances that salvage the film's integrity.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    40
    "Inspired by a true story" it may be, but inspired it's not.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    30
    Anyone who already knows better than to taunt the disabled, or former Oscar winners, should probably give it a pass.
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