Saving Grace 2000

Critics score:
63 / 100

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Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: Read more

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Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Frothy, silly, ever so slightly subversive and purely delightful. Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Without her humanity and comic timing, Saving Grace could have been a silly puff-ball. With Ms. Blethyn and a talented ensemble, it has the makings of a Full Monty-type sleeper. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Ultimately, all the jokes exploit the same tired premise, which is the spectacle of variously dotty and stuffy Englishmen and women getting stoned, wittingly and not. Read more

Hap Erstein, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: There is nothing profound in this movie, but it shines through so many of this summer's dumb Hollywood comedies like a beacon through a haze of smoke. Read more

Houston Chronicle: This is a less-showy performance than the ones [Blethyn] gave in those other two movies, for which she was nominated for Academy Awards, but it's just as impressive. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: A modestly effective comedy. Read more

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Saving Grace has a lovely Cornish setting and Blethyn to recommend it, but mostly it's a contact mediocre. Read more

Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz: After an uproarious first half, Saving Grace arrives at its conclusion somewhat hastily and conveniently. But to its credit, it still maintains a sunny comic mellow. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The familiar, derivative feel is in part offset by a hard-to-deny level of appeal. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: We're left with a promising idea for a comedy, which arrives at some laughs but never finds its destination. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's a breezy and entertaining little charmer that works because it's not rendered on too precious a scale. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A rote treatment of a tired subject. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more

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Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Inanely upbeat and grindingly obvious, the movie amounts to a checklist of inevitable tee-heeing scenarios that surface on cue, only to wilt instantly before your eyes. Read more