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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: An achingly intimate and beautifully observed account of the immigrant experience. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: There are so many beautiful, tender moments in In America ... that it's easy to forgive Sheridan's manipulative ploys. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a film brimming with honest sentiment and infused with the spirit of Frank Capra's best work. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: In America, on paper, sounds dangerously close to sentimentality, but Sheridan keeps the movie's tone just off-kilter enough to avoid it. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Sheridan's labor of love becomes a testament to love, presenting the triumph of spirit over circumstances. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Thanks to Jim Sheridan's graceful, scrupulously sincere direction and the dry intelligence of his cast, In America is likely to pierce the defenses of all but the most dogmatically cynical viewers. Read more
Meredith Brody, Chicago Reader: The result is a blend of kitchen-sink and magical realism: sentimental, but well acted and freshly observed. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Lesson-laden, tear-jerking fairy tale. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: [In America] is particularly adept at dealing with the immigrant experience, with lives lived on the knife edge of hope, poverty and despair that is in many ways this country's quintessential situation. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Deeply moving and funny. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Jim Sheridan's In America doesn't just tear at the heart strings. It rips them out, cuts them up, sets the pieces on fire and pours cold water on the ashes. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Sheridan] stages it with a deft specificity and understatement. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The cast features two of the most engaging little girls ever to grace the silver screen, and they come with a flat-out guarantee: The hardest of hearts will melt before them. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: If the film is manipulative, at least it's subtly manipulative. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: For his part, Sheridan places his bets on the healing power of magic and the transformation of bad blood into good. As pipe dreams go, this one couldn't be timelier. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Ostensibly, it's meant to be part family drama and part love letter to New York. But it feels like a movie made by a tourist. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: At its best, the movie has a supernal glow that you can practically warm your hands by. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The movie stumbles. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The casting of real-life sisters Sarah and Emma Bolger is the stroke that gives In America its buoyancy. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Redeemed by the joyousness of family life that Mr. Sheridan captures from his agile and resourceful foursome. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: One of the two or three best movies of the year, In America is easily the most emotionally satisfying. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A unique and moving look at the so-called 'immigrant experience' that is as much about family dynamics as it is about the struggle to survive in an unfamiliar country. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is perceptive about the countless ways in which it is hard to be poor and a stranger in a new land. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The three miracles that occur over the course of Jim Sheridan's In America pale next to the miracle of the movie itself. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: There's no questioning the director's ability to wring moving moments from potentially sentimental and decidedly familiar material: the story of penniless immigrants trying to make it in Manhattan. It got to me. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Not everything is possible in Sheridan's America. But with this cast, In America, everything is beautiful. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The love that permeates every frame of this comic drama quickly makes it apparent that this is something dear to the filmmakers' hearts. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Too sweet to ever worry us that things might not pull together in the end, and yet too odd to be overly lulling, In America keeps itself just on the far side of familiar. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: A classic story of losing and finding faith told with heart, humor and emotional heft. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Like a kid playing make-believe, In America is blithely confident of its own contrivances; it only benefits from a certain unselfconscious naivete. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It is kept watchable and empathetic by the energy of the superb performances and the sense of complete freshness. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: A big little movie, a fictionalized memoir that transcends the personal to become universal -- its grubby verve touched with a sense of wonder and magic, its mundane actions given an all-too-rare spiritual resonance. Read more