Arrival

Introspective sci-fi drama packs a punch.

"...depressed because her daughter has died young from an illness. This information is relayed in a painful but perfectly..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miracles From Heaven

This Christian-centric film wears its faith on its sleeve

"...film chronicles the Beam family’s struggle with the debilitating illness of 10-year-old middle daughter Anna (Rogers) who’s diagnosed with..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Touched With Fire

Two manic-depressive poets meet in group therapy and fall in love

"...Kay Redfield Jamison’s 1993 book Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, the film latches on to..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Aloft

Jennifer Connelly and Cillian Murphy play an odd and estranged mother and son

"...Gully (Winta McGrath) has an unspecified and fatally untreatable illness, so she has dragged him and his older brother..."

June 26, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Theory of Everything

Based on Jane Hawking's memoir about her marriage to the scientist Stephen Hawking, this film really shows what goes into a relationship.

"...suitors. Around this time, subtle omens of his degenerative illness begin to manifest: a trip on the staircase, the..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Best of Me

It's getting hard to tell one Nicholas Sparks adaptation from another amid all the dross.

"...off the usual Southern locale and fixations on terminal illness, hand-written letters, mean parents, and kissing in the rain...."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mood Indigo

Michel Gondry's latest presents us with an elaborate yet handmade artifice that's thoroughly charming until its color drains away.

"...it all goes dark, quite literally. As a mysterious illness takes over, the color is leached from the film..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Idris Elba is spellbinding in this biopic that reveres the man but slights the movement.

"...month at the age of 95, following a prolonged illness, and was laid to rest after a 10-day mourning..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I'm in Love With a Church Girl

The title says it all.

"...not unambitious: It crams into its two hours terminal illness, money laundering, a DEA sting, clubbing, a prolonged coma,..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Still Mine

James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold star in this octogenarian love story.

"...occasion, just as he does with his wife’s encroaching illness – with practicality, understanding, exasperation, and a bit of..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters to God

A young boy with cancer writes letters to God, an action that affects the lives of others around him.

"...lives of others whom he might save through his illness. Like God’s sacrificial son, Tyler has his own cross..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Under Our Skin

This documentary probes the human, medical, and political dimensions of Lyme disease, its treatment, and diagnosis.

"...the improved diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, an illness that takes many forms and is under-recognized and undertreated..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fanboys

This shaggy comedy is an earnest, sweetly geeked tribute to fandom.

"...one of their own, newly diagnosed with a terminal illness, stares down an expiration date prior to Episode I's..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Reprise

This bracingly good Norwegian film is many things at once: portraits of mental illness, obsessive love, the uneasy transition from punk rock youth to “upstanding” adulthood, and fraternal competitiveness.

"...many things at once: portraits in miniature of mental illness, obsessive love, the uneasy transition from punk rock youth..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After the Wedding

An expat Danish aid worker in Mumbai returns to Copenhagen to meet with a benefactor, only to discover that the world is even smaller than it seems.

"...in After the Wedding, scattering the residue of infidelity, illness, and death into everyone’s quiet little lives. But even..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Factory Girl

Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.

"...off the double demons of drug abuse and mental illness that ultimately ended her life in 1971 at the..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Proof

As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.

"...a once-brilliant mathematician who began to succumb to mental illness at 27 (her age), is a mystery of sorts,..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Here on Earth

"...when Sam is expediently diagnosed with a scary-sounding terminal illness somehow involving an old running injury (dreaded knee-cap disease?)...."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Bicentennial Man

"...loved ones fall prey to such human weaknesses as illness and death, Andrew hooks up with renegade robotics genius..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Niagara, Niagara

"...well in conveying her character's matter-of-fact acceptance of her illness. (Indeed, Tunney's performance won the best actress award at..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

"...by subjecting himself to agonies greater than anything his illness could dish out. (Steel yourself beforehand for all manner..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

As Good as It Gets

Nicholson and Hunt both won Oscars for their respective roles as a rude and obsessive-compulsive writer and the waitress who grows to love him.

"...He's not speaking for us, of course; it's his illness talking. And laughter, as we all know, is the..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alive & Kicking

"...his artistic mark before the troupe disbands or his illness drags him down. As both a performer and a..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Substance of Fire

"...by Martin's noble silence as he succumbs to serious illness himself. It's an odd turn toward movie-of-the-week bathos and..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

"...himself over love, his mother's best friend falls to illness, a stranger is murdered by a malicious couple with..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Cure

"...Man) comically search for a cure to Dexter's deadly illness. Their quest eventually sends them on their way to..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Boys On the Side

"...the funny give way to something more serious as illness turns everything upside down. It's here that the bonds..."

Feb. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Wedding Gift

"...an unclassifiable, mysterious disease. Throughout the course of the illness, her husband Deric (Broadbent) devotes the majority of his..."

Aug. 12, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

"...who has lost a loved one to a terminal illness, the sobering link of sorrow and grief readily transcends..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Benny & Joon

Naïf meets waif in this touching yet whimsically unrealistic tale of love amongst society's write-offs.

"...boundaries of decency is in its presentation of mental illness as harmlessly eccentric behavior. It belittles Joon's schizophrenia into..."

April 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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