A Little Bit of Heaven 2011

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A cringe-inducing romantic comedy turned cancer tragedy turned inspirational hosanna about living in the moment, embracing your bliss and other cliches. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Bravely or stupidly, both A Little Bit Of Heaven and its heroine charge on as if the introduction of terminal cancer didn't change things that much. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: There is nothing the slightest bit heavenly about this project, which is wrong-headed in just about every department. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: As embodied with clueless good humor by Kate Hudson, fatal sickness looks more like a lifestyle and wardrobe choice than a tragedy. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: Sap without the weight of reality, awkwardly combined with a romance without much chemistry. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Kate Hudson dies prettily in this tone-deaf dramedy about a woman finding love while suffering from colon cancer. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: Gren Wells' screenplay throws around a few ideas about female independence and sexuality, but finally it's as shallow as it is mawkish. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: When a movie opens with a character telling you that love isn't important, that movie is definitely going to smack down that nonbeliever, because movies always believe love is important. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: A little bit of hell. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Who knew dying could be such a laugh riot? Certainly not any of us who have actually watched a loved one in the awful final stages of cancer. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The film reaches into the pits of moviegoing hell when it finds Marley on a celestial white couch, ringed in billowing white curtains, communing with God. And God is embodied by Whoopi Goldberg. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: What's missing is honesty. It has been supplanted by artifice. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Read more

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com: A moment of silence, please, for Kate Hudson's career. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: In the long history of bad movies about bad illnesses, "A Little Bit of Heaven" just might be the worst. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Who's got time for bed-rest when there are hang-gliding lessons to be had? Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: A cynical affair only suited to those who like a cheap, forgettable weep. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out: Colon cancer isn't a great pretext for uplift or an occasion for Bucket List-style hang gliding, snappy dream-sequence banter with Whoopi Goldberg as God and a brief comic bit featuring Peter Dinklage as an escort. Read more

Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: A Little Bit of Heaven demands miracles of its cast to keep proceedings from becoming grindingly mawkish and does not get them... Read more