[M. Night Shyamalan] clearly hadn't quite figured out exactly what he wanted to say or do, but as a film, it does feel like a director who is really trying to make something that feels different from other family entertainment that explores spirituality.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 25, 2021

Full Review | Original Score: F | Sep 7, 2011

A wonderful family film that deals sensitively, and even with humor, with a fairly unusual situation for the screen: a 9-year-old's struggles with his faith in God.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2001

Children, too, will be bored to tears navigating through some of the talky spiritual gunk.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

I wonder who the movie was made for.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The fact is, just too many of the characters and plot points are right out of the stock room: the obligatory fat kid; the obligatory bully; the obligatory kid whose parents can't really afford Catholic school tuition ...

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Beneath its suffocating, smug sentimentality, you have to look hard to uncover a single moment of truth and genuine feeling.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000