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- Genre : Drama, Family
- Release Date : February 03, 2012
- MPAA Rating : PG
- Duration : 123 minute(s)
- Production Budget : -
- Studio : Universal Pictures
- Official Site : http://www.everybodyloveswhales.com/
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your heart will also go out to the cast, stuck even more pitiably in syrupy manufactured crises
by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice ]
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this energetic family movie is less insipid than it looks
by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine ]
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the strong emotions at play are good, but the movie veers, at times, into schmaltz, and some comedy shorthand feels lazy and dumb
by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]
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the people's stories, especially a trumped-up romantic triangle, are not as intriguing as the portrayal of pre-Internet news media
by Nell Minow [Chicago Sun-Times ]
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tells its sort-of-true version of events in a democratic and humane fashion
by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]
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like an old Disney family comedy by way of a 1980s news story
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
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kids 8 and up will get behind the film's heroic tone
by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]
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it also has a more-than-fair amount of wry humor, droll political observation if not actual satire
by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]
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in short, Miracle eschews black and white - even the Inupiat have ulterior motives - for shades of grey
Review rate : D+
by Peter Keough [Boston Phoenix ]
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gets off to a shaky start, but once revved up, it becomes an involving work-against-the-clock-and-the-odds action movie
by Rachel Saltz [New York Times ]
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full of such simple acts of intelligence. And that's a minor miracle
by Janice Page [Boston Globe ]
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doesn't have much of a plot
by Ella Taylor [NPR ]
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almost cartoonish depictions of bland romances and superficial political machinations
by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
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all perspectives get an airing
by Kevin Lally [Film Journal International ]