Bicentennial Man Critic Reviews

Few actors apart from Williams could bring it off.Read the full review

A mainstream holiday movie, complete with stupendous special effects, amazing make-up artistry and sumptuous production design.Read the full review

Has a certain slow, mechanical quality.Read the full review

Begins with promise, proceeds in fits and starts, and finally sinks into a cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment.Read the full review

Columbus' approach is intended to cloak such topics as mortality and human identity in the warm glow of greeting card sentiment, which renders the prescription palatable for mass consumption but hopelessly diluted.Read the full review

Except for Williams, the sitcom-meets-sci-fi acting throughout the movie is strictly of television caliber.Read the full review

The sad fact is Williams is at his best while trapped in Andrew's original sleek form. His performance is subtle, his reactions restrained. The more Robin is exposed, the more ham is served.Read the full review

Director Chris Columbus...seals this comedy in an impenetrable bubble of hollow humanism.Read the full review