The Bucket List Reviews
Screenwize
Meehl's gentle handling of her subject and her unobstrusive, observational camera work make this a delightful and touching experience.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flicks.co.nz
Whilst this remains reasonably captivating for its first hour, it kinda runs out of steam after that...
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| Original Score: 3/5
Times-Picayune
A modestly uplifting, and at-times poignant, buddy comedy that manages to make the most of the worst of situations.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
...contrived and forced, almost begging the audience to pull out the hankie.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Entertainment Spectrum
An endearing film that will bring you to tears and have you cherishing every relationship and day you have.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Reel Film Reviews
...a hopelessly uneven endeavor that's ultimately felled by a lamentable emphasis on heavy-handed bursts of schmaltziness.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Sin Magazine
This movie has the same level of false, mediocre level of entertainment as the movie WILD HOGS. If you liked that one, then you might like this. But I despise both.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Movie Metropolis
...sentimental, simplistic, and almost shamefully manipulative, yet I found it absolutely charming.
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| Original Score: 7/10
NewsBlaze
No Grumpy Old Men these two, as Nicholson's over-the hill sex machine billionaire with his serial quickies on demand, and Freeman's egghead underachiever spar with the Grim Reaper. Two Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Windy City Times
For those who want to Believe, those who want to be cuddled by the fake laughter through tears emotions that only an expertly made piece of Hollywood toffee like this can provide - if only for the moment - get out your hankies.
MSNBC
... plays like Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, reimagined as an uninspired sitcom and travelogue.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Laramie Movie Scope
An entertaining tear jerker of a story about two old men facing the end of two very different lives.
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| Original Score: B
San Francisco Examiner
'The Bucket List' begins with a bleak, unsparing glimpse into the unraveling lives of two terminal-cancer patients and ends in unblushing sentimentality.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Las Vegas CityLife
doesn't a by-the-numbers Rob Reiner buddy movie about dying just about say it all? This is for the hardcore Nicholson and Freeman fans who don't mind considering the mortality of their idols.
The Scorecard Review
At one point Morgan Freeman's character shouts, 'This was supposed to be fun.' I couldn't agree more.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Let's Not Listen
The film's trailers suggest the triteness you're in for, and Morgan Freeman's opening narration -- his usual wise-old-black-man spiel -- seconds it.
Colorado Springs Gazette
Although it's certainly not on par with his best work, The Bucket List is the best film Reiner has made in a long time.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Reno News and Review
Just die, already!
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| Original Score: 2/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
'The Bucket List' pales in comparison to the talents of its stars.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
When actors as great as Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can't make dialogue sound natural, you know the script is a stinkeroo.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
