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Not about the justice or injustice of the legal system. Rather it's about the tragedy of Sam's predicament.Full Review

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

A warm, hard-to-resist story.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

Ham-handedly manipulative film.Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe

The kind of performance Penn delivers in I Am Sam, which may look hard, is easy, compared, say, to his amazing work in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown."Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Just don't believe the anti-hype. There are lots of reasons to have a good cry these days -- here's a nice, warm place to get squeezed.Full Review

David Edelstein
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