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Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune: In December, Cusack will be back on screen in Grace Is Gone, another portrait of a grieving widower struggling to raise children. Viewers may want to hold out to see him in a film that maintains its sensitivity all the way through. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Cusack carries this unabashed tearjerker. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The science-fiction elements are mere window dressing for a story that's most affecting when it's down to earth, rather than when it's following its heroes' flights of fancy. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It either is stiff and dry or it piles on the schmaltz in absurd amounts. In that sense, it offers the worst of both worlds. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: One soggy slab of sentimental uplift. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Martian Child would like to be About a Boy (Who Thinks He's a Martian), but, disappointingly, it doesn't even come close. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Director Menno Meyjes keeps the sci-fi suspense quotient up just enough to make the ending somewhat disappointingly pat. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: The problem with Martian Child is that it wants to be a story about outcasts, but Dennis doesn't come off as a cute little rebel. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The movie can also be accused of its own sugar overdose as director Menno Meyjes piles on every cliched situation. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Cusack and Coleman are on screen together most of the movie, and the fact that they don't completely overstay their welcome amid the maudlin action says a lot for the restraint they bring to the characters. Read more
Steven Boone, Newark Star-Ledger: There is something disingenuous and calculating about the work of his director and composer. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The entire cast is fully committed to this squishily sentimental tale, which is especially impressive given that it's the kind of generic dramedy you'll swear you've seen a thousand times before. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Has enough wit and unpredictability to hold your attention. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Martian Child was directed by Menno Meyjes, who wrote the screenplay for The Color Purple, and written by the distinguished team Jonathan Tolins and Seth Bass. How could so many good people go so wrong? Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: [Cusack] just can't seem to conjure up a reservoir of emotions to make Martian Child human. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Martian Child wants to make us cry. It nearly made me gag. This is an exercise in shameless and inept emotional manipulation. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: So bland and safe that it might appeal more directly to children than adults. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Before long, the story's conceit -- a loud-and-clear metaphor for the ways in which we all sometimes feel alien when it comes to human relationships -- just becomes wearying. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's off in many directions -- false in its details, false in its relationships, false in its emotions -- but probably the first and worst thing that needs to be said about it is that it's also overlong and dull. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A film so cloying it could have been processed from high-fructose corn syrup. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: If you're allergic to schmaltz, bring a bottle of Benadryl along to Martian Child. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: If all this is supposed to be so life-affirming, how come I envied the dead dog? Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: An occasionally schmaltzy but likable story of healing and redemption. Read more
Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Knockout performances by John Cusack and child actor Bobby Coleman help legitimize a whimsical but sententiously moralizing script. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: Martian Child certainly isn't much fun, unless you were desperately awaiting K-PAX with a kid instead of Kevin Spacey. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Martian Child feels artificially sweetened rather than genuinely moving. Read more