Some people will find it emotionally manipulative. Some people like to be emotionally manipulated. I do, when it's done well.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Seven Pounds works better the more the viewer feels and the less he/she thinks. On an emotional level, one could decree that the movie is satisfying. On an intellectual level, it's disappointingly shallow.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
While it doesn't break any new ground or provide any revelations, Seven Pounds is unabashedly emotional and cautiously hopeful. It's the feel-good movie for these feel-bad times.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
This is what lifts Seven Pounds above other Smith dramas -- he does tentatively allow another adult onto his solitary planet.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
The movie is pretty unabashed about the all-but-corny sentiment: Each of us has something to give.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
I'd like to make a 911 call myself: Lord, please stop this increasingly fine actor (Smith) from climbing onto another cross.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Seven Pounds is one part jigsaw puzzle, one part "The Giving Tree" and both parts marinated in melancholy.Read Full Review »
The rest of Seven Pounds feels like a half-hour "Twilight Zone" script that has been pressed onto a gob of Silly Putty and stretched to the sinking point.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Overall Seven Pounds is too heavy-handed and maudlin to be comprehensible, let alone moving. The real shocker is that not even Smith can rescue it.Read Full Review »
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