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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Penn's mentally retarded Sam Dawson will melt your heart and leave you chanting, 'Oscar! Oscar! Get this guy an Oscar!!' Read more
Jay Carr, Boston Globe: Penn and Pfeiffer carry I Am Sam further into plausibility than it has any right to expect. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Wears its heart on its sleeve but keeps its brains in its pocket. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [P]lays like a made-for-TV weeper with an A-list cast. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A most inviting and accessible film that turns upon a mental condition that most people would prefer not to think about. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: So drenched in sweetness that it's devoid of reality, and so free of leavening flavors that, despite some good performances, it's ultimately sickening. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Attaches a vastly overqualified company to a soggy, flamboyantly manipulative script. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Penn makes it easy to forgive the movie's lapses. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's a sensational performance, and [Penn] illumines a movie that sometimes seems in danger of descending into modish Hollywood political correctness. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Its sentimentality is so relentless and its narrative so predictable that the life is very nearly squeezed out of it. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Pounds its noble intentions and emotional intensity into your head until you can't help but cry -- in physical pain from all the pummeling. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: You have no idea how grating and hypocritical treacle can be until you've watched this picture. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The movie's magic is that we feel more rewarded than manipulated. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: It's similar to a superficially hip and irreverent, yet fundamentally sentimental, TV show. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The dumbing down of low-IQ sentimentality. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It shows us that intellect and love are indeed related -- inversely. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: About as connected to the real world as Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham, from which its title is derived -- in fact, in the realism department, Seuss may have the edge. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Another spectacular workout by the versatile and indefatigable Sean Penn saves the sudsy I Am Sam from the rinse cycle. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It glosses over reality on so many occasions that it's hard to take seriously. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Every device of the movie's art is designed to convince us Lucy must stay with Sam, but common sense makes it impossible to go the distance with the premise. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Plays the audience as crassly and heartlessly as any studio-tooled tear-jerker. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Deserves to be remembered for Sean Penn's remarkable performance as a mentally challenged man. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: On one level, I Am Sam is a crock, but on another, more vital one, it's very, very sweet. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Penn repeatedly hits the ball out of the park, but the rest of the team never gets past first base. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The kind of movie so punishingly sweet -- and intellectually vapid -- it should come with a blood sugar alert. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Reduces Penn, one of the best screen actors working today, to a mugging embarrassment. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Undone by its best intentions, I Am Sam is an especially insipid example of the Hollywood message movie. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The treacle and showboat handicap impressions flow like half-and-half. Read more