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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Big Miracle is not the most sophisticated adventure film, but compared with most family movies, it's practically something out of Noel Coward.
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Boston Globe Janice Page
It needs only to entertain. And that it does thoroughly, leaving us both charmed and enriched without feeling very preached at. Praise be.
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NPR Ella Taylor
Big Miracle is a family movie fitted with the usual appeals to multiple audiences, and though tots, teens and younger parents might find the action a little slow until the rescue pressure builds, the grandparents will enjoy it as a trip down media memory lane.
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The New York Times Rachel Saltz
Big Miracle gets off to a shaky start, but once revved up, it becomes an involving work-against-the-clock-and-the-odds action movie.
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
It's the affable cast, headed by Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski, that really makes the picture so widely accessible.
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Movieline Stephanie Zacharek
But there's so much going on in Big Miracle that the biggest miracle of all the whales at the center of the story, get lost amid all the criss-crossing love stories, political wheeler-dealing and well-intentioned but inadequate rescue missions.
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Washington Post
As the minutes tick down, the sentimentality picks up. But chalk that up to the enigmatic creatures, which grab hold of human hearts no matter one's politics or affiliations. Whales just have a way of bringing people together.
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
The genuinely sweet nature of this sometimes clunky movie is mixed with a little sass, and wins you over.
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Big Miracle is harmless enough, but what's annoying about it is its aura of fake activism. The movie doesn't seem to get that it's exactly when the news media began to devote more time to subjects like whales that it started to turn into news not for activists but for couch potatoes.
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USA Today Claudia Puig
It's certainly a worthy saga. But given the abundance of one-dimensional human portrayals, it becomes apparent that a documentary on the subject might have been more powerful.
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