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(1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1   "After Collateral Damage, you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned. But no."   Nitrate Online   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "John Q may be too problematic to be marked a great movie, but one thing definitely is: Denzel Washington."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 1/4 "It's tough being a black man in America, especially when the Man has taken away your car, your work-hours and denied you health insurance."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C "This is sappy, unrealistic stuff with hardly a true moment anywhere in it."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C+ "I usually appreciate it when a movie takes a stand, but not when its approach is so juvenile. "   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 "If you can imagine Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington's former '80's TV series St. Elsewhere crossed with the engrossing urgency of Dog Day Afternoon, then you'll have Nick Cassavetes's sanctimonious and awkward hostage hospital drama"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D+ "A meretricious melodrama that manages to reduce serious social and economic issues to the most cheaply sensationalistic level."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "A poorly scripted, preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent, believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 ""Socially conscious" Denzel Washington thriller wants to tackle tough questions -- but settles for easy answers."   Netflix   James Rocchi 3/4 "An edgy, poignant drama that has its heart in the right place."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 3/10 "A mess of a film that may send you to the doctor for one or more of the following: Inducing the gag reflex, causing wrist strain from checking your watch too many times, or prompting temporary blindness from far too much eye rolling."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 6/10 "It's not a perfect film by any means ... but overall, it entertained me."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 6/10 "la cinta en un vaivén de emociones que pueden ir desde lo cursi hasta lo dramático. "   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 2/5 "A problem picture that says all the right things and does all the wrong ones."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "Has something to say... but it is a statement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 1.5/4 "Next time hire Michael Moore"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Washington’s performance is almost unbearably heartbreaking, but more lamentable is the fact that he’s stuck in such an offensively simplistic story."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Denzel Washington's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 1.5/4 "In case you haven't figured it out, John Q is a Message Movie. Actually, it's more like a 2-hour Public Service Announcement."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 0/5 "The movie comes dangerously close to saying that the solution to a personal grievance is, well, terrorism, when you get right down to it."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B- "[Denzel Washington] not only rescues a very questionable movie, but lends it a sense of dignity and moral weight that it couldn't hope to achieve on its own."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "'John Q" is a manipulative thriller, but unlike most such films, it has a worthwhile social policy point to make and some top-notch acting talent to help put the point across."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "The actors and technicians help to elevate [John Q] above its source material."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford C "The criticism never rises above easy, cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker D "Drowns in a sea of manipulative formulas and cardboard caricatures."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell D- ""What John does is heroic, but we don't condone it," one of the film's stars recently said, a tortuous comment that perfectly illustrates the picture's moral schizophrenia."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 5/10 "Each scene drags, underscoring the obvious, and sentiment is slathered on top."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 0/4 "A working class "us vs. them" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 5/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline Read review   BlackFilm.com   Wilson Morales  (1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten Page   1