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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: A movie that resonates with truth and caring and, thanks to the uncommon rapport between Luke and Washington, grabs at the heart like nothing else this year. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: While the film is rated PG-13 for language and the brawling, this is one film that high school teachers can use as a teaching tool without any rationalization. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The acting helps push the movie past its familiarity into something that rings earnest and true. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A special film with some really special performances from the young actors and of course Denzel Washington. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: There's a simplicity and heart to Antwone Fisher ... that's extremely appealing. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Celebrates family in a way that's deeply felt by the director and screenwriter/subject and no doubt will be shared by viewers of any ethnicity. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Induces the sort of catharsis that leaves you feeling released, enlightened and in deeper touch with humanity. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An involving, inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: For sure, Antwone Fisher is corny. But it's corny in a way that a Hollywood movie about a boy who just wants to go home ought to be corny. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Not only is it unusual that this emotional story of how a damaged boy became a whole man made it to the screen at all, it is a measure of its strengths that it overcomes storytelling flaws that would have disabled a weaker project. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: In his debut as a director, Washington has a sure hand. His work with actors is particularly impressive. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Washington the director couldn't have made a smarter choice for the title role -- or chosen a more appropriate project to make his own. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Well-meaning to a fault, Antwone Fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Luke's performance as Antwone is strong and stirring enough to rekindle that vintage phrase 'a star is born.' Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Offers an impressive melding of quietly radical images and ideas with, yes, an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing holiday tearjerker. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's a familiar story, but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in San Diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times I saw the film. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: There's nothing in either the conception or execution to lift it above a TV-movie tear-jerker. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Why this story? As it stands, it's the story of a clean-cut kid who becomes an even nicer clean-cut kid. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Earnestly inspirational, conservatively moralistic and little on the bland side. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It is an inspirational, heart-tugging story of the kind Oscar might be willing to embrace. Read more
Eddie Cockrell, Variety: Crafted with the same measured intensity and quiet authority found in his best onscreen work, Denzel Washington's debut behind the camera, Antwone Fisher, is an emotionally charged true-life story of one man's tenacity and eventual redemption. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Everything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: An assured directorial debut that goes straight for the tear ducts. Read more
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