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(1 - 21) of 21 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1   3/5 "As an example of the age old Hollywood weeper as post-modern semi-serious character study, Nick Cassavete's My Sister's Keeper is too safe to be wholly successful, too powerful to be merely pushed aside."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "The obnoxious calculation smothers what should’ve been a pure articulation of melancholy and a potent debate of morality."   Dark Horizons   Brian Orndorf C "For every instant of genuine tragic ache within this dubious feature, there are two served up right behind it that drip with obnoxious manipulation and creaky execution."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B+ "...will relieve six months worth of tears for audiences willing to take its cathartic journey."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3.5/4 "...consistently manages to rise above its similarly-themed, undeniably low-rent brethren..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "I felt manipulated."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "A motion picture of notable sensitivity and beauty, hamstrung emotions kept to a minimum. Tough, touchy, provocative, and exceptionally moving."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C "Once the bizarre premise is established, all the movie can do is wait for the story to play out -- it has a beginning and end, but no middle."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider C- "Like a Lifetime disease-of-the-week movie on steroids...tugs at your heartstrings so relentlessly that by the time it's over you might require a defibrillator."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "My Sister's Keeper doesn't pull any punches, and it doesn't tell any lies, and it earns every feeling and thought and memory it brings to the audience."   Redbox   James Rocchi 2.5/4 "A mawkish yet worthy enough addition to the summer line-up."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/5 "Call me crazy or overly conservative, but I find it completely reprehensible to have another child simply to use as an organ and tissue farm for another kid."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C+ "...a blatant 10 hanky weeper masquerading as something deeper, but it does some things well in spite of itself."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford C+ "My Sister's Keeper might have earned its weepy moments if it had played fair with its central dilemma rather than putting forward a false choice."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[L]ike that last rush of endorphins they tell us floods our bodies to prepare us for death... [W]ants you to sob, but with bittersweet acceptance and saccharine grief, not with rage or anger or denial..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B- "How far would you go to save your child's life? How far should you go? Those are the questions posed and largely ducked in this film based on the book by Jodi Picolt."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1/5 "Two straight hours of emotional torture porn that is so brutally assaultive in its determination to jerk tears from viewers that it practically leaps off the screen and into their laps in order to get to them quicker."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "an overly sentimental movie-of-the-week, masquerading as counterprogramming to Michael Bay's box-office-blasting robots."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 4/10 "What an agonizing, misguided, maudlin mess!"   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 21) of 21 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1