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Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: Hard-hearted critic that I am, I even found tears welling up near the end. But it's dishonest in its execution, and a tad dull after a promising beginning. Read more
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: You witness the first, testing, tension-packed conversation between Spacey and Osment, as pregnant in its silences as in its words, and you are ready to go wherever this movie leads you. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The year's most manipulative movie. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: So enamored of its own upbeat view of human nature that it expects you to overlook its stick-figure characters, its creaky plot machinery and its remorseless assault on your tear ducts. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Offers more potential than payoff. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The combination of restrained writing and direction and top-of-the-line acting is enough to make even confirmed agnostics want to believe in this unashamed fairy tale. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Wants so badly for us to feel something -- inspired, teary, shocked -- that it leaves us merely numb. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Toploaded with manipulative schmaltz, star-turn moments, intentionally unflattering makeup, unbelievable plot twists and just plain twaddle. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Unceasingly manipulative. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Less a worthy achievement than a nice try. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: With its smorgasbord of moralizings, Pay It Forward is a confusing welter of sentiment. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It tells a story that audience members will want to like, but it doesn't tell it strongly and cleanly enough; it puts too many loops into the plot, and its ending is shamelessly soapy for the material. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: No wonder Arlene keeps a bottle of vodka in the chandelier. You would too with this demonic, passive-aggressive, New Age munchkin trying to run your life. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Has all the elements of a satisfying movie except knowing when to stop. The rest is good enough, however, that it will do. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Spacey and Hunt create interestingly layered characters who are hiding parts of themselves from themselves. And come Oscar time, Osment once again may be saying, 'I see tuxedoed people.' Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Osment truly is as good as it gets where kid thesps are concerned. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Hollywood feel-goodism at its best (or worst, depending on your Patch Adams tolerance quotient). Read more