Rory O'Shea Was Here Critic Reviews

Buddy movies are a Hollywood staple, but Rory O'Shea Was Here puts a new and profoundly affecting spin on the tired genre.Read the full review

Funny and moving, and more entertaining than some of the movies you are considering this weekend.Read the full review

Sweet and deeply moving.Read the full review

If there's such a thing as freedom for everyone, Rory's determined to give the prospect its most grueling road test.Read the full review

Better than the usual three-stage journey of courage, heartbreak and redemption. In this case, the triumph of the human spirit comes with a small bitter chaser.Read the full review

The kind of inspirational movie that actually earns its crowd-rousing response as opposed to merely pushing the same old, emotion-coaxing buttons.Read the full review

As a feel-good movie about disabled youths, Rory O'Shea Was Here gets the job done, but it isn't interesting or daring enough to make it worth a trip to a theater.Read the full review

A shameless heart-tugger of considerable appeal that, like many movies that start off with much going for them, could have been so much better had its makers aimed higher.Read the full review

It wants to humanize the plight of the disabled, but it undermines its worthy aims by presenting its leads as martyrs and saints.Read the full review