The Other Sister Reviews

Giovanni Ribisi could be his generation's Dustin Hoffman... he could also be his generation's Richard Benjamin...

Full Review | Original Score: B-

For what is supposed to be a poignant love story, The Other Sister fails to show much spark.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The film pushes the outer limits of just how long anyone with a normal I.Q. can watch what should be a TV sitcom.

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Grotesquely sentimental, shamelessly manipulative and fundamentally bad.

Never manages more than a glib, TV movie-of- the-week glance at their lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A torturous endurance test!

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

A neatly wrapped made-for-TV homily!

Everything is reduced to a transparent formula. And everyone plays their schematic part.

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Warm-hearted but ultimately soft!

The surprises are interesting, but not enough to save the film from itself.

This movie offers itself to us like a cow with too many udders.

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It's as dull as a butter knife and slowed to interminable mediocrity, and inadvertently brings to mind the title of Marshall's autobiography: "Wake Me When It's Funny."

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

It has all the right cast members...but it cripples them with the screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The press notes describe The Other Sister as 'uplifting' and 'bittersweet'; a more accurate description would be 'insulting.'

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

instead of frank talk about real issues, "Sister" stubbornly accentuates the positive, offering up gorgeous houses and a sweeping pop soundtrack instead of any sort of insight into the problems a woman in Carla's situation might face.

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Has neither the imagination nor the reach of Forrest Gump.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Lacks the depth of thought this complex topic deserves.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Lewis is terrific!

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impresses with its hardy ability to tickle and tear its audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Builds toward an emotional crescendo that will fill you with tears, many of joy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4