Henry Poole is Here Critic Reviews
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Based upon 11 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The film has some amusing moments and can be intriguing when it focuses on the slow transformation of a hopeless, faithless man.Read the full review
The biggest hole in this picture is not so much whether an audience will buy its miracles but whether an audience will care about Henry Poole. Wilson hits the same notes in virtually every scene without any change to his physical rhythms or moods.Read the full review
Henry Poole cycles through so many indie film clichés--that it continually skirts self-parody.Read the full review
It's less a tale of religious rebirth than a faith-based Hallmark card.Read the full review
A not-quite-funny comedy that devolves into a tedious discussion of miracles and redemption.Read the full review
A strange and thoughtful little movie.Read the full review
Though not strictly a religious tract, Henry Poole Is Here is undeniably selling spiritual reawakening. If only its makers believed that aesthetically useful adage: God is in the details.Read the full review
Picture's tendency to lecture on the power of faith and religion and on the demerits of science seems to assume an almost childlike audience that needs to be spoon-fed Pablum.Read the full review
Achieves something that is uncommonly difficult. It is a spiritual movie with the power to emotionally touch believers, agnostics and atheists -- in that descending order, I suspect.Read the full review
The film's spiritual deck is stacked. In the mawkish tradition of movies like "Simon Birch," "Wide Awake," "August Rush" and "Hearts in Atlantis," Henry Poole Is Here is insufferable hokum that takes itself very, very seriously.Read the full review
