John Q. Critic Reviews
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An all-stops-out rabble-rouser that hurls a broadside at America's medical insurance crisis.Read the full review
One can excuse the movie's missteps and melodramatic moments in the greater interest of the strong statement it makes about our health care system.Read the full review
A well-intentioned but self-defeatingly manipulative film that amounts to an impassioned commercial for national health care.Read the full review
More hokey than heartfelt.Read the full review
Denzel Washington is so powerfully earnest an actor that you never want to laugh at him -- even when you ought to be in stitches.Read the full review
The movie could have used a brain transplant. It doesn't explore injustice -- it just exploits it.Read the full review
Turns out to be hopelessly mediocre -- a poorly scripted, preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent, believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda.Read the full review
Gripping, if manipulative and somewhat preposterous, drama.Read the full review
The kind of movie Mad magazine prays for. It is so earnest, so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied.Read the full review
Plays less like an exposé than a piece of exploitation, its clear divide between good and evil allowing no breathing room for real drama.Read the full review
