Collateral Beauty

"You'll ... struggle to accept that what you saw on that screen actually played in theaters, was funded and approved by distributors, took a month or so of the lives of those extraordinary actors."

"A strenuously uplifting Christmas awards-bait tearjerker."

"The five stages of grief sometimes seem applicable to movie reviewing, except that I usually skip denial, rarely get around to acceptance and generally just settle into anger, which is where I am with "Collateral Beauty.""

"At the end of it, I screamed the way polar bears are supposed to when they get their tongues frozen to the ice."

"This saccharine, manipulative, cynical, brain-dead and virtually inhuman enterprise should be shown down the ages as a terrible example of just how much can still go wrong..."

"A movie which suggests five stages of grief requires a sixth, entitled "collective idiocy"."

"This movie doesn't rise to the level of so-bad-it's-good. But no less impressively, perhaps, it's just bad enough that you actually wish it were worse."

"The finished movie plays ... concertedly like a Serious Acting Vehicle for Smith, who's the least interesting component in a madly over-qualified cast."

"Smug, lazy and clumsily manipulative."