Jack (1996) Critic Reviews

This feel-good motion picture is intelligently written and expertly directed.Read the full review

Within the limits and cliches of utterly predictable material, Mr. Coppola is still finally able to make this one from the heart.Read the full review

It sits in a rather unspectacular niche between modern fairy tale and a disease-of-the-week TV movie.Read the full review

it's a synthetic, rather drab movie, one that seems linked less to experience, or even to fantasy, than to other movies - "Big," of course, and also "E.T.," "Mask," and "Phenomenon."Read the full review

When a master dedicates his genius to the production of schmaltz, it's not a pretty sight.Read the full review

[Robin Williams] has been ill-served by a screenplay that isn't curious about what his life would really be like.Read the full review

Jack is more depressing than the weight of its demerits because of the quality of the work both these men have done before.Read the full review

Blandness and lack of daring characterize nearly every minute of the very long two hours, which are marked by a high degree of professionalism at the service of little content.Read the full review