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My Sister's Keeper (2009) Rank 3 Reviews
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MSNBC
Given how easily the filmmakers could have cranked up the string section and gone for the quivering lip in soft focus, their restraint is admirable. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at MSNBC
WaffleMovies.com
The weepfest movie of the summer, but it has more going for it than that. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at WaffleMovies.com
ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
With the aid of a great cast, Cassavetes has made a movie that will relieve six months worth of tears for audiences willing to take its cathartic journey. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Orlando Sentinel
My Sister's Keeper is a horror movie for parents and a righteous weeper that earns its tears. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Orlando Sentinel
Teletext
Tears will be shed as the promised courtroom drama is displaced by other developments - Joan Cusack almost steals the pic as the lachrymose judge who has lost a young daughter herself. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Teletext
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Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
...a high-class tear-jerker thanks to an intelligent script...sensitive direction...and strong performances... ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
Detroit News
A surprisingly lovely movie about an absolutely awful subject, My Sister's Keeper features what also may be the year's first performance worthy of Oscar mention. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Detroit News
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The three-hankie weepy, based on the bestselling novel by Jodi Picoult, is very much in line with Cassavetes' previous melodramas "John Q," with Denzel Washington as the determined father of a young boy who needs a transplant; and "The Notebook," the flas ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Denver Post
My Sister's Keeper humanizes vexing questions about medical ethics without sacrificing rattling family drama. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at The Denver Post
Waffle Movies
Abigail Breslin stars as Anna - a young girl born through in vitro fertilization and genetically engineered to help provide donor items to her sister, Kate (Sofia Vassillieva), who has a rare form of leukemia. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Waffle Movies
The Movie Boy
It would be easy to go wrong with a melodrama like "My Sister's Keeper. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at The Movie Boy
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Director Nick Cassavetes relies too much on montages with wispy songs about yearning and unicorns, but he gracefully balances the film's multiple viewpoints, which help us understand that the film's issues are not black and white. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press
Creative Loafing
My Sister's Keeper isn't quite a keeper, but it's a sturdy melodrama that earns those copious tears. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Creative Loafing
Washington Post
An adaptation that, although departing dramatically from such key elements as the book's ending, will please fans. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Washington Post
The Commercial Appeal
An outrageous Lifetime Television courthouse drama, constructed in the artful style of a Sundance drama... ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at The Commercial Appeal
Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
The performances are first-rate, with special commendation to Vassilieva in a breakout performance as a teen striving for normalcy in spite of her cancer. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Village Voice
The film is extraordinarily explicit in showing the effects of disease and what's involved in caring for the sick. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Village Voice
Looking Closer
Contrived or not, sad is sad, and My Sister's Keeper will have all but the most cement-hearted reaching for tissue. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Looking Closer
The Movie Minute (Joanna Langfield)
While this little wrencher works, cinematically, perfectly well, the truth is, this one is going to piss off a whole lot of people. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at The Movie Minute (Joanna Langfield)
EmanuelLevy.com
In "My Sister's Keeper," director Nick Cassavates tackles new, provocative issues that beset many American families today. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at EmanuelLevy.com
Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
How far would you go to save your child's life? How far should you go? Those are the questions posed -- and largely ducked -- in this film based on the best-selling book, My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
AZCentral.com
Director Nick Cassavetes doesn't believe in subtle manipulation, either. Emotion is essentially forced out of viewers; theaters may as well hand out raw onions with the ticket stubs. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at AZCentral.com
Palo Alto Weekly
A mawkish yet worthy enough addition to the summer line-up. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Palo Alto Weekly
TwinCities.com
For years, little Anna provided blood, bone marrow, whatever Kate needed. She did it because she loved her sister, and because it's all she ever knew. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at TwinCities.com
PopMatters
She's the alien in the other room, the otherworldly creature riddled with a mysterious disease that is, somehow, destroying not only her, but the entire family. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at PopMatters
BrandonFibs.com
My Sister's Keeper is the sort of film that requires a pre-film checklist. Overpriced soda? Check. Overpriced popcorn? Check. Pocketful of tissues? Check. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at BrandonFibs.com
The Telegraph
Misery loves company. That at least is what the makers of My Sister's Keeper, based on Jodi Picault's 2004 bestseller, are hoping. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at The Telegraph
Philadelphia Daily News
Who'd have thought that the progeny of John Cassavetes - the raging, unruly indie auteur of the 1960s and '70s - would turn out to be such a sap?
Nick Cassavetes had a big hit in 2004 with the mushy, cross-decades love story The Notebook, and now he's ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Philadelphia Daily News
The Movie Kit
Level of difficulty in watching My Sister's Keeper: Easy - but also very hard watching through blurry eyes. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at The Movie Kit
Boxoffice Magazine
My Sister's Keeper is a rare tearjerker where the viewer doesn't feel jerked around (most of the time). ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Although the compelling courtroom drama gets forgotten for much of the movie, My Sister's Keeper also is relatively realistic about the physical and emotional toll of disease. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Comingsoon.net
Despite the bad storytelling and lazy filmmaking at play, one has to assume Jodi Picoult's original novel isn't the problem as much as the way it's been translated with far too many attempts at trying to make it carry more weighty while being more accessi ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Comingsoon.net
OregonLive.com
It's very emotional and often touching, but it's also got chemo, bone marrow extractions and a nihilistic view of death. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at OregonLive.com
Variety
There's crying and vomiting aplenty in "My Sister's Keeper," and audiences may be forgiven the urge to respond in kind. ...read the complete My Sister's Keeper movie review at Variety
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by Tetramobile on July 17, 2009 New York, New York
My problem with this movie is that they changed it from the book. I don't know why they did it. Maybe they didn't think the audience could handle the real ending of the story, but why make a movie if you're going to change what people ...
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