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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe Miracle Club won’t rock your world, but it’s a nice movie. There’s always a place for nice movies.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe Miracle Club contains few surprises, but that’s kind of the point of these kinds of movies, yes? We’re here for the comfort-viewing and the location scenery and the hand-me-a-tissue moments and the sublime performances.
- 75Film ThreatSumner ForbesFilm ThreatSumner ForbesThis is an inspiring and emotional watch with one’s mom, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
- The plot is lacking in emotional weight, even though the adversities are right there on paper.
- 50Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanIt’s a sterling cast, capably guided through the motions by director Thaddeus O’Sullivan — no relation to the author of this review, at least none that I know of — in this at times gently amusing and at other times modestly touching dramedy.
- 50The New York TimesLisa KennedyThe New York TimesLisa KennedyThe filmmakers go for too-easy laughs; the movie doesn’t seem to trust its audience to sit with the pain, much less to find the achy humor in it, as a more assured film might. The actors here are good, but they are not miracle workers.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThis uneven and often unsatisfying dramedy’s saving grace might be the sadness that permeates the sunny settings, the sunny bus ride and the beatific awe they feel upon reaching that holy grotto and giving themselves over to the water “cure” machinery the nuns there run.
- 50Boston GlobeOdie HendersonBoston GlobeOdie HendersonI wish the filmmakers had shown as much faith in the audience as its characters have in miracles.
- 40Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesAlongside Kathy Bates and Laura Linney, Smith is one of three grande dames of acting headlining The Miracle Club. Disappointingly, director Thaddeus O’Sullivan doesn’t put any of them to good enough use in this featherweight Irish dramedy set in 1967.
- 25Slant MagazineGreg NussenSlant MagazineGreg NussenIn the end, The Miracle Club is splintered at the seams between its desire to tell an uplifting story of forgiveness and a cheeky tale of patriarchal floundering, all the while doing both a tremendous disservice.