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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe first half of Moonlight Mile feels like the runaway trailer for a movie that can't wait to jerk your tears. But to quote Joe in a moment of epiphany, there's a ''truth enema'' out there, and, boy, it really brings this movie around.
- 67Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesAn admirable effort, but too many words, words, and more words, and not enough of the ache of that half-smile.
- 63Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanInside Moonlight Mile, an honest and heartbreakingly true movie is struggling to get out.
- 60New Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerNew Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerThe film takes an incredibly wrong turn when it shifts to the courtroom trial -- It all but kills any goodwill Silberling has engendered up to this point.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldIn his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter, Silberling also, to a certain extent, trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls: to the point where his heartfelt drama comes perilously close to tasteless comedy.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIn ''Ordinary People,'' at least one character -- Mary Tyler Moore's -- had to fall so that the others could survive. In Moonlight Mile, no one gets shut out of the hug cycle.
- 50Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachBaltimore SunChris KaltenbachMoonlight Mile leavens the mood occasionally, but it cheapens things by insisting that everybody onscreen and in the audience leavethe theater smiling.
- 50Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezA movie about grief for people who don't want to be upset too badly. It's a half-a-hankie tearjerker, a meek, polite weepie.
- 50Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternEloquent acting -- in fits and starts -- can't make up for the movie's glib, off-putting calculations.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAn insult to anyone who has tragically and unexpectedly lost a loved-one in a similar manner.