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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
A sharper edge could have taken a pretty good, if uneven, picture to greater heights, considering its potent ingredients and actors. Read full review
Hope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun. Read full review
Cloying, unoriginal stuff, rescued -- barely -- by the easy affection that courses between Bullock and Connick Jr., and by the lovely cinematography of Caleb Deschanel. Read full review
A turgid melodrama with the emotional range of a sympathy card. Read full review
The pond is so shallow in this wan romance that there's no room for anything to float. Read full review
Despite its hopeful title and a warm inland location, this dawdling family dramedy proves as sodden as a bed-wetter's mattress. Read full review
Hope doesn't float in this film so much as it rises to the surface and then stagnates. Read full review
If there's one thing more heartbreaking than a crying child, it's a crying child wearing thick glasses, an image exploited numerous times throughout the course of the dull, uninvolving, tissue-thin Hope Floats. Read full review
A dreadfully dull, completely conventional story of a young wife's recuperation from being unceremoniously dumped, this is a by-the-numbers bit of emotional calculation without a single fresh, original or offbeat move in its system, apart from a nifty opening sequence. Read full review
Floats is corny and false, with a script by Steven Rogers that's almost 100 percent artificial sweetener. Read full review