The Bucket List Reviews
August 23, 2018
As Rob Reiner should know better and Jack Nicholson should know better and Morgan Freeman should know better, what you have here is a film which has to make you ask: how come they didn't?
February 18, 2012
Full Review
| Original Score: C
November 18, 2011
Original Score: 1/5
November 17, 2011
Full Review
| Original Score: 1/5
May 1, 2008
... plays like Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, reimagined as an uninspired sitcom and travelogue.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
February 15, 2008
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| Original Score: 3/5
January 15, 2008
You get the performances you expect from these two great stars, which lift this story mercifully but marginally above its meager content.
January 11, 2008
The Bucket List's craft is as impeccable as moviemaking technique and computer tricks can be. But boiled into a formula that is sometimes cloying and sweet, the movie is nonetheless a lazy low-grade product.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1.5/4
January 11, 2008
The movie is caught in the crossfire of its two missions -- to celebrate the universal things that "really matter" in life (friendship, family) and to celebrate what it means to live like Jack Nicholson.
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| Original Score: 2/4
January 11, 2008
There are certainly worse ways to spend the holiday season than in the company of two charming old actors, being reminded that human companionship makes life worth living, even as it makes dying a little tougher.
Original Score: B-
January 11, 2008
Cheap and flimsy.
Original Score: 2/4
January 11, 2008
Not every film about death needs a bald Swede and a game of chess: Sometimes, the sky-diving's enough.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
January 11, 2008
By the end of The Bucket List, silliness has been replaced by pretension, and while there may not be a dry eye in the theater, many of those tears will be shed in embarrassment for giving in to such hooey.
Full Review
| Original Score: C
January 11, 2008
Acting's good, but Bucket is half-empty.
January 11, 2008
Watching Nicholson and Freeman on the same screen and their characters Edward and Carter embarking on a sojourn of discovery is hard to resist.
Original Score: 3/4
January 11, 2008
Bucket's rush to sentiment leads you to think the film, not its characters, is soon to expire.
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| Original Score: C+
January 11, 2008
A manipulative look at dying with dignity and a lame yarn about as realistic as the fantasy in The Princess Bride.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
January 11, 2008
The Bucket List is a movie for oldsters that, paradoxically, looks as if it was made for 15-year-olds. If this is what is meant in Hollywood as "thinking outside the box," then it's time to get a new box.
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| Original Score: D+
January 11, 2008
I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.
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| Original Score: 1/4
January 11, 2008
It's safety-first adventuring and safety-first filmmaking, both of which should be mortal sins.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4