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Roger Ebert, At the Movies: A cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Al Brumley, Dallas Morning News: Mr. Williams latches onto every cheap laugh he can find. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Bicentennial Man has heart, but lacks bite. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: [Robin William's] most grandiose holiday greeting yet. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This tin man has a heart, but his movie needs a pulse. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: You wish that the film unfolded on a more modest scale and in the real world. Read more
Bob Campbell, Houston Chronicle: Bicentennial Man's heart may be synthetic, but it beats strongly, nonetheless. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: It's one thing to ask an audience to love a mechanical man, but quite another to love a mechanical performance. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: By relegating the story to a disappointing level of superficiality and never attempting to venture more than skin-deep into some intriguing themes, Bicentennial Man comes across like recycled, diluted Star Trek. Read more
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: It's a bit strange, and strained. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Columbus lays on the sentimentality thickly, sometimes letting it get in the way of the storytelling. The longer the movie continues, the more overt he becomes in his emotional pandering. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: An underfunded inventor makes enough snide asides about 'relentlessly unfashionable android technology' that you half expect Williams to start speechifying about the merits of cloning. Read more