Seven Pounds Critic Reviews

Some people will find it emotionally manipulative. Some people like to be emotionally manipulated. I do, when it's done well.Read the full review

A spiritual successor to "The Pursuit of Happyness," but darker and more oblique.Read the full review

While it doesn't break any new ground or provide any revelations, Seven Pounds is unabashedly emotional and cautiously hopeful. It's the feel-good movie for these feel-bad times.Read the full review

Seven Pounds works better the more the viewer feels and the less he/she thinks. On an emotional level, one could decree that the movie is satisfying. On an intellectual level, it's disappointingly shallow.Read the full review

The film's Italian director does achieve in his second American outing a pleasing blend of Hollywood professional sheen and European sensitivity to character details and nuances.Read the full review

The movie is pretty unabashed about the all-but-corny sentiment: Each of us has something to give.Read the full review

It's a con job that feels like a precisely attenuated work of art, elegantly weaving flashbacks and ellipses into the story in an effort to conceal how shamelessly manipulative it is in the end. And as always, Smith comes out a winner.Read the full review

I'd like to make a 911 call myself: Lord, please stop this increasingly fine actor (Smith) from climbing onto another cross.Read the full review

An unintentionally ludicrous drama of repentance.Read the full review