An Unfinished Life

An Unfinished Life isn't original, but, for those who enjoy this sort of drama, it's an opportunity to remember how, in the right circumstances, on-screen characters can touch our hearts.Read Full Review »

Sometimes you are either open to a movie, or closed. If you're convinced that An Unfinished Life is damaged goods, how can it begin its work on you?Read Full Review »

Poignant and well-acted, it offers heartfelt moments leavened by subtle humor.Read Full Review »

Everything about An Unfinished Life's screenplay is cliched and predictable, but the actors manage to elevate the proceedings above and beyond shameless soap.Read Full Review »

It's an acceptable film, but the story of family ties and forgiveness simply cannot manage the emotional connections it is desperate for.Read Full Review »

Like most of Hallström's Hollywood movies ("The Cider House Rules," "Chocolat"), this one is excruciatingly tasteful.Read Full Review »

As with the director's other films, all that keeps Unfinished from being a complete, treacly bore is its robust performances.Read Full Review »

The picture is outrageously predictable and somewhat poky, but there's also something admirably bold about the way it so adamantly demands we swallow its hokum.Read Full Review »

It's not just that Jennifer Lopez looks lost and out of her league acting with Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman. That's to be expected. It's the drag-ass solemnity of this turgid family drama that makes you crazy.Read Full Review »

An Unfinished Life is inert, kaput -- a middlebrow mush of platitudes rather than an okay corral of distinct characters with heartbeats. It's awful not in an exciting, uncontrolled way but in an overly controlled, narcotized way.Read Full Review »