Reviews

• I don't think I've seen a mainstream movie get fatherhood so right since "Kramer vs . Kramer": the fear, the indulgence, the snappishness, the pre-occupied "uh-huhs" as a child natters about his day, the steamrolling waves of love.

  Ty Burr - The Boston Globe
  
  27 April 2013

• My sentimentality meter never went off, and Smith proved what people have forgotten since his breakthroughs in "Where the Day Takes You" and "Six Degrees of Separation" 13 years ago: He's a serious actor.

  Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer
  
  27 April 2013

• It's a beautiful and understated performance, one that hums with a richer, quieter music than Smith has mustered before.

  Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
  
  27 April 2013

• Smith wins our hearts without losing his dignity, as Chris suits up for success by day and fights off despair by night. The role needs gravity, smarts, charm, humor and a soul that's not synthetic. Smith brings it. He's the real deal.

  Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
  
  27 April 2013

• Will Smith has the right quality for the role -- he's an easy man to root for -- but he augments this by channeling some inner quality of desperation and need.

  Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  27 April 2013