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Entertainment Weekly: Dear Frankie - http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1036467,00.html
Dear Frankie is a Scottish weepie of such bathos and balderdash that it deserves a drinking game in its rotten honor: Bend an elbow every time you've underestimated how low screenwriter Andrea Gibb and director Shona Auerbach will go to wring a tear. By Lisa Schwarzbaum. |
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PopMatters: Dear Frankie - http://popmatters.com/film/reviews/d/dear-frankie.shtml
Though occasionally movie-child cute, Frankie is for the most part a complicated young person whose only instrument of communication is his body. By Lesley Smith. |
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The Flick Filosopher: Dear Frankie - http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/archive/2005/frankiewife.shtml
Director Shona Auerbach and writer Andrea Gibb have found all sorts of ways to depict tender moments of unspoken love and the wisdom and sweetness of children and will require at least four hankies if you're anything like me. By MaryAnn Johanson. |
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Screen It: Parental Review: "Dear Frankie" - http://www.screenit.com/movies/2005/dear_frankie.html
Review addresses film content, the cast as role models and offers a parental advisory notice. |
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Rogerebert.com: Reviews - Dear Frankie - http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050310/REVIEWS/50222003/1023
"The filmmakers work close to the bone, finding emotional truth in hard, lonely lives," says the acclaimed critic in this favorable review of Shona Auerbach's 2004 film. |
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Hybridmagazine.com: Dear Frankie - http://www.hybridmagazine.com/films/0405/dear-frankie.shtml
I found it to be a sweet, touching, and overall engaging experience. Review by Jeffrey “The Vile One” Harris. |
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FilmJerk.com: Dear Frankie - http://www.filmjerk.com/reviews/article.php?id_rev=522
A sweet, gentle story of unusual relationships, “Dear Frankie” has a giant heart, yet the film rarely dips into sentimentality. An unexpectedly calm performance from Gerard Butler helps matters greatly, making this a rare Miramax surprise. By Brian Orndorf. |
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Dear Frankie - http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php?id=10251
Dear Frankie is definitely sappy and predictable, but it's also well executed. It's a movie that wins you over in short order. By Scott Chitwood. |
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Reeling Review of Dear Frankie - http://www.reelingreviews.com/dearfrankie.htm
"Dear Frankie" is a film that fully engages with the search for a 'champion skimmer' and defines its characters so subtly that they surprise us when they act just the way we've been told they should. By Robin and Laura Clifford. |
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Dear Frankie - http://www.sover.net/~ozus/dearfrankie.htm
This slice of life drama still leaves open the ethical question of lying to your child as a way of showing you're a caring mom. By Dennis Schwartz. |
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Reviewjournal.com: Dear Frankie - http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Apr-15-Fri-2005/weekly/26270007.html
For all its far-fetched plotting, and there are times when "Dear Frankie" definitely pushes the credibility envelope, the movie maintains its emotional truth through every far-fetched twist. By Carol Cling. |
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Palo Alto Online: Dear Frankie - http://www.paloaltoonline.com/movies/cgi/moviescreener_long.cgi?id=2159
This is a lovely ensemble piece that touches on poignant themes of commitment, compassion and the emotional exhaustion inherent in maintaining an elaborate fiction originating from love and fear. By Jeanne Aufmuth. |
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DVD Review: Dear Frankie - http://www.currentfilm.com/dvdreviews7/dearfrankiedvd.html
By keeping away from big emotional moments, sappy ballads on the soundtrack and other such genre staples, "Dear Frankie" actually steers away from the kind of tearjerker train wreck that it could have easily become. |
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Flipside Movie Emporium: Dear Frankie Movie Review - http://www.flipsidemovies.com/dearfrankie.html
At its heart lies a very sweet concept, but one that's easily poked to pieces if you're inclined to do so. Review by Sean O'Connell. |
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EI Review: Dear Frankie - http://www.einsiders.com/reviews/archives/show_theatrical.php?review_theatricle=270
"Dear Frankie" uses convenient movie contrivance well to tell a textured story populated by real people. The story as a whole may not completely hold up, but the characterizations created have depth and importance. By Jonathan W. Hickman. |
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Spirituality & Practice:Dear Frankie - http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=9216
Shona Auerbach directs this intimate family drama that demonstrates the lengths one loving mother will go to protect her son from the truth about his dangerous and violent father. By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. |
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Xiibaro Reviews: Dear Frankie - http://www.cinema-scene.com/archive/06/2004/dearfrankie.html
Under the façade of overly sentimental melodramatics is a surprisingly assured and hopeful rendition of a deaf boy’s story of finding his father. By David Perry. |
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Dear Frankie - http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=140438&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13#tabs
Dear Frankie is a sweet wisp of a film, held together—just barely—by its down-to-earth charm and winning performances. By Tim Knight. |
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DVD Review of Dear Frankie - http://www.dvdtown.com/review/dearfrankie/16407/2988/
What makes "Dear Frankie" work is the acting, which is uniformly superb, every character a precise, living, breathing human being. By John J. Puccio. |
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Filmcritic.com: Dear Frankie - http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/9ce0279f123be57088256fed0073fe7f?OpenDocument
A movie like Dear Frankie needs more quiet moments where we see the characters apart from the chaos surrounding them. Without that, you’re frequently reminded that the actors are just that: actors, and not real people. By Pete Croatto. |
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Review for Dear Frankie - http://reviews.imdb.com/Reviews/396/39643
Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, and Gerard Butler star in "Dear Frankie," an attentive and well-made Scottish import that emphasizes strong character development in ways that are both subtle and complex. By David N. Butterworth. |
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FilmThreat.com: Dear Frankie - http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=6175
Positive review of the drama by Ross Williams. |
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Reel.com: Dear Frankie - http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=140438&PID=10119081&Tab=reviews&CID=18#tabs
Expertly modulated and uncommonly touching, the Scottish drama Dear Frankie is a deep and delicate look at a young boy's need to believe and a mother's need to protect. By Gary Goldstein. |
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Wolf Entertainment Guide: Dear Frankie - http://www.wolfentertainmentguide.com/pub/filmsearch.asp?record=3028
“Dear Frankie” is one of the most satisfying films thus far in 2005. |
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2004: The Summer's Best - http://www.bucketreviews.com/sdff.html#BR%20Dear%20Frankie
Even more disappointing is that Dear Frankie, which has received strong buzz so far from the majority of critics, turned out to be an entirely ho-hum motion picture. By Danny Baldwin. |