At First Sight (1999) Critic Reviews
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An exceptionally touching and provocative love story. [15 January 1999, Calendar, p. F-4]Read the full review
The sweetest little movie about a neurological disorder that we're ever likely to see.Read the full review
Offers solid entertainment, it's too uneven to be considered memorable.Read the full review
Its moments of fascination and its good performances are mired in the morass of romance and melodrama that surrounds it.Read the full review
May be only loosely true, but it is thoroughly Hollywood.Read the full review
A love boat afloat on the vast cinematic ocean that sloshes back and forth between the stinko and the fabulous.Read the full review
Here's a romance without a spark of excitement.Read the full review
The pace is so plodding and the dialogue so unwaveringly banal … that the film can't rise to the extraordinary sensations it means to capture.Read the full review
Although it's notoriously difficult to play a romance involving one partner's disability or illness without resorting to sentimentality, Kilmer acquits himself admirably.Read the full review
If "You've Got Mail" jangled your nerves with its Starbucks-fueled cuteness, here's a romance that goes down like instant decaf. [15 January 1999, Life, p.18E]Read the full review
