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Will Smith's heartfelt performance elevates The Pursuit of Happyness above mere melodrama.
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We may wonder if happiness can be bought this way, and whether the film being sold to us isn't a slightly suspect package, but Smith, sublime and moving, sells it regardless. January 17, 2007
We may wonder if happiness can be bought this way, and whether the film being sold to us isn't a slightly suspect package, but Smith, sublime and moving, sells it regardless.
Tim Robey
Deserves kudos for avoiding saccharine sentiment, but its relentless emphasis on money as the cure for all ills is depressing. They might as well have called it The Pursuit of Richyness. January 14, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Deserves kudos for avoiding saccharine sentiment, but its relentless emphasis on money as the cure for all ills is depressing. They might as well have called it The Pursuit of Richyness.
Paul Arendt
Plays like an unravelling of the Eighties comedy hit Trading Places. Instead of a smart-Alec street hustler who turns the tables on his seemingly benign patrons, we have a smart saint who simply wants to join the club. January 14, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Plays like an unravelling of the Eighties comedy hit Trading Places. Instead of a smart-Alec street hustler who turns the tables on his seemingly benign patrons, we have a smart saint who simply wants to join the club.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
The film unspools like a souped-up vanity project. January 14, 2007 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The film unspools like a souped-up vanity project.
One can detect almost the spirit of a public information film nagging the audience: look, people, the American Dream doesn't come for free. January 14, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
One can detect almost the spirit of a public information film nagging the audience: look, people, the American Dream doesn't come for free.
Anthony Quinn
That Will Smith is capable of this great performance should not be surprising. January 13, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
That Will Smith is capable of this great performance should not be surprising.
Paul Byrnes
Will Smith can carry a film. And carry it he does, because without him, Happyness would founder in its own schmaltz. June 6, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Will Smith can carry a film. And carry it he does, because without him, Happyness would founder in its own schmaltz.
Matthew Lucas
Director Gabriele Muccino has so overloaded the story with glib anecdotes that it's often depressing and, worse, monotonous. Everything that is admirable, and there is much, is down to Smith's verve. November 3, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Director Gabriele Muccino has so overloaded the story with glib anecdotes that it's often depressing and, worse, monotonous. Everything that is admirable, and there is much, is down to Smith's verve.
Kaleem Aftab
Save some of those Kleenex for The Pursuit of Happyness. January 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Save some of those Kleenex for The Pursuit of Happyness.
Joel Siegel
The Pursuit of Happyness is a very Hollywood film, which could be good or bad depending on your point of view. It tries very hard to be profound and inspirational, but ultimately it's not up to the task. April 25, 2011 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
The Pursuit of Happyness is a very Hollywood film, which could be good or bad depending on your point of view. It tries very hard to be profound and inspirational, but ultimately it's not up to the task.
Joshua Starnes
Counterfeit emotion and submerged racism August 28, 2009 | Full Review…
Counterfeit emotion and submerged racism
Fernando F. Croce
Sap, sentiment, and hokey plot devices bog down an otherwise down to earth story. April 29, 2009 | Full Review…
Sap, sentiment, and hokey plot devices bog down an otherwise down to earth story.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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