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Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: A manipulative look at dying with dignity and a lame yarn about as realistic as the fantasy in The Princess Bride. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This being Oscar-coveting Hollywood claptrap, class barriers vanish as the two become best friends and Nicholson bankrolls a spree in which they indulge their deepest romantic whims. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: The Bucket List's craft is as impeccable as moviemaking technique and computer tricks can be. But boiled into a formula that is sometimes cloying and sweet, the movie is nonetheless a lazy low-grade product. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: There are certainly worse ways to spend the holiday season than in the company of two charming old actors, being reminded that human companionship makes life worth living, even as it makes dying a little tougher. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The Bucket List must have seemed like a good idea -- around 1985. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's impossible to mistake the movie for inspired. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Freeman and Nicholson make the most of Justin Zackham's script, but there just isn't enough substance behind their characters to prop up the carpe diem platitudes. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Not every film about death needs a bald Swede and a game of chess: Sometimes, the sky-diving's enough. Read more
Tom Charity, CNN.com: Watching The Bucket List may not inspire philosophical introspection, but it's quite likely to make you re-examine your priorities. At least as far as movie-going is concerned. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Bucket List is a movie for oldsters that, paradoxically, looks as if it was made for 15-year-olds. If this is what is meant in Hollywood as "thinking outside the box," then it's time to get a new box. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Watching Nicholson and Freeman on the same screen and their characters Edward and Carter embarking on a sojourn of discovery is hard to resist. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: By the end of The Bucket List, silliness has been replaced by pretension, and while there may not be a dry eye in the theater, many of those tears will be shed in embarrassment for giving in to such hooey. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's fun, for two minutes, to see Nicholson and Freeman jumping out of a plane, but once they've gotten tattoos and raced vintage cars, the movie is already scraping the bottom of the bucket. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: You get the performances you expect from these two great stars, which lift this story mercifully but marginally above its meager content. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Bucket's rush to sentiment leads you to think the film, not its characters, is soon to expire. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The sort of movie that inspires you to ponder all the better uses to which the chemical ingredients of 35mm film stock might be put. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: The Bucket List never ascends from the bowels of tearjerk formula and audience pandering to a redemptive place of truth and art. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: In general, the light is golden, the mood technologically sublime, the actuality of the experience a dead zero. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Despite some emotional dips and a see-it-to-believe-it load of schmaltz at the end, The Bucket List is mostly a joy ride with good company, and the actors obviously were having a high time on their traveling boondoggle. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The eternal human struggle for answers is an unusually resonant chord for a big-budget studio movie to strike. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The Bucket List is a messy free-for-all, but it's a genuine pleasure to watch two hired hands literally running the rodeo. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: There are big laughs and minor moments of grace in The Bucket List. It's also fun to watch these two swap lines, Nicholson angry and antic, Freeman laid back and serene. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Nicholson and Freeman are so lovably companionable, they almost make you forget the glaring contrivances screenwriter Justin Zackham concocts. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Nothing wrong about a movie that says, Stop and smell the roses. Now, if only director Rob Reiner hadn't rubbed our noses in a bouquet of plastic blooms. Read more
Denver Rocky Mountain News: Acting's good, but Bucket is half-empty. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The message of The Bucket List is that we should stop and smell the roses, count our blessings, hug someone we love, before it's too late. That's an audacious demand, coming from a movie that squeezes the life force right out of you. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie is caught in the crossfire of its two missions -- to celebrate the universal things that "really matter" in life (friendship, family) and to celebrate what it means to live like Jack Nicholson. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Great actors sometimes transcend their material, but Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can't pull their boots free from the ankle-deep schmaltz of The Bucket List. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Apparently, plowing through this much treacle is enough to gum up any mortal coil. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: All involved in this tepid excuse for feel-good entertainment seem to have checked out long before the faint pulse died. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: A picture about two cancer patients confronting reality, and deciding how they want to spend their presumed last days, that has not an ounce of reality about it. Read more
Julia Wallace, Village Voice: [Nicholson and Freeman] are skilled at squeezing emotion from a cheeseball script (as is Reiner, who, knowing the score, doesn't try to rein them in). Read more
John Anderson, Washington Post: The overall sense is of a movie coasting on an obvious and somewhat flimsy premise, to which no one thought to bring much else besides Nicholson and Freeman. Read more