| 90 |
Dallas Observer
In short, Just Say Yes.
|
| 88 |
New York Post
A real high in a season filled with unfunny comedies.
|
| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Solid formula comedy.
|
| 80 |
Salon.com
It's a breezy and entertaining little charmer.
|
| 80 |
Film.com
Has a charm that keeps you involved throughout.
|
| 80 |
LA Weekly
It's a fresh installment in what appears to be a self-perpetuating sitcom of British life.
|
| 80 |
Variety
Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
|
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
It makes you giggle. That's the dark, dirty secret. You giggle. You giggle again.
|
| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Ron Dicker
It has enough humanity to let the humor tickle, and a subject that will evoke memories for anyone who has ever smoked a joint or just said no.
|
| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A comedy of the old school. Depending on your view of the current state of screen humor, that's either a promise or a warning.
|
| 75 |
USA Today
Though not quite up to "The Full Monty" or "Waking Ned Devine," there's just enough left in that overseas whimsy stockpile to generate good buzz (the word-of-mouth moviegoer kind).
|
| 75 |
Mr. Showbiz
After an uproarious first half, Saving Grace arrives at its conclusion somewhat hastily and conveniently.
|
| 75 |
New York Daily News
Has that same air of silly innocence, a rarity in today's movies.
|
| 70 |
Village Voice
Constipated English whimsy for the easily tickled.
|
| 70 |
TV Guide
Thoroughly dotty and surprisingly endearing.
|
| 70 |
Rolling Stone
Blethyn's solid-gold charm turns Saving Grace into a comic high.
|
| 63 |
Boston Globe
It's funny and charming most of the time, thanks to Brenda Blethyn.
|
| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Whimsy and wit are the saving graces of much British movie comedy, and Saving Grace has a decent measure of both.
|
| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
Blethyn glides through the proceedings elegantly, a comic swan among ducks.
|
| 60 |
The New York Times
That they're English and elderly apparently makes their antics screamingly funny to people who would turn up their noses at similar humor in a film like "Scary Movie."
|
| 60 |
Time
Grace is not as tightly wound as the best of its breed, but it is a genial way to pass the time.
|
| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Wrings laughs from the antics of affable, eccentric villagers who cheerily break the law.
|
| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Never quite rises above its one-joke situation.
|
| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Blethyn's lively acting and some visually amusing moments lend spice to this minor but engaging comedy.
|
| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Determined to be inoffensively tidy and cute above all else.
|
| 50 |
Portland Oregonian
A sweet, loopy British comedy filled with good actors and funny moments.
|
| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
We're left with a promising idea for a comedy, which arrives at some laughs but never finds its destination.
|
| 50 |
Film.com
Coy, cutesy, sentimental, and shamelessly manipulative.
|
| 40 |
TNT RoughCut
Better in the end to skip it, and make Mother go it alone.
|
| 40 |
TNT RoughCut
Better in the end to skip it, and make Mother go it alone.
|
| 40 |
Slate
I've shot people for less.
|
| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
A real audience pleaser.
|
| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It tries to get by on charm. It doesn't.
|
