Gifted's reviews
Media reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Gifted isn?t the best or most sophisticated or most original film of the year so far ? but it just might be my favorite.
Roger Ebert
If Gifted works for you as it did me, it?s mostly because of the cast, but also the way the story unpeels.
USA Today
The film is decidedly emotionally manipulative without being cloying, and often finds real humor in the complicated situation that arises around a genius 7-year-old, played by Mckenna Grace.
The Wrap
Gifted finds a collective of competent people making a perfectly competent movie ? nothing more, nothing less.
The Washington Post
It is redeemed by an appealing cast, tart dialogue and the preponderance of genuine emotion over the manufactured variety.
New York Times
What?s in a child?s best interest? It depends on who?s answering the question. That?s the crux of Gifted.
Variety
Marc Webb directs a drama about a child prodigy, but it's as formulaic as his blockbusters [...] Once the movie gets into court, the hokum flies
Indiewire
Evans and Grace are exceedingly appealing together, and their charming chemistry keeps the film afloat even when it doesn?t seem to know which direction to move in.
The A.V. Club
Call it a dumbed-down 'Good Will Hunting'.
Los Angeles Times
No one is likely to disagree with the basic correctness of the movie?s conclusions, though you may well object to the process by which it arrives at them.
The Playlist
Gifted means well, but it?s nonetheless a formulaic movie, missing the wit and charm needed to make this kind of picture add up to something truly special.
Entertainment Weekly
Gifted is a custody battle melodrama that?s as schmaltzy as all get out [...] Unnuanced, overplotted, and mechanical.