Amazing Grace (2007) Critic Reviews

Fortunately, director Michael Apted and his team understand the challenges of this kind of story and have met them with intelligence and energy.Read the full review

Anyone who has ever felt morally right and completely in the minority will have a point of entry into this movie.Read the full review

Unlike its subject, Amazing Grace won't change the world, but its quasi-religious sense of conviction proves rousing. Apted's unexpected crowd-pleaser is inspirational, but also surprisingly entertaining.Read the full review

Picture reflects the no-nonsense storytelling skills of prolific helmer Michael Apted, whose career-long mix of feature and documentary work holds him in good stead once more.Read the full review

The overall effect is part BBC-style biography, part Hollywood-like hagiography, and generally pleasing and often moving, even when the story wobbles off the historical rails or becomes bogged down in dopey romance.Read the full review

A case of good works done well.Read the full review

It's disappointing that so much talent has been assembled with so little to do.Read the full review

It's earnest, solemn stuff. The movie sings an old tune -- Albert Finney is the blind minister who wrote the title ditty -- and it leaves the blood unstirred.Read the full review

It's a doughty movie, stuck halfway between Masterpiece Theatre and Classics Illustrated, but, to his credit, gifted journeyman director Michael Apted understands he's playing the long game.Read the full review