A Little Bit of Heaven
Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: May 4, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
14
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
16
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Total FilmEmma DibdinApr 28, 2012
While the marriage of fluffy comedy and terminal illness was always going to be an uncomfortable one, this is an understated, genuinely poignant weepie bolstered by a top-drawer cast. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie OgleMay 3, 2012
You should know right up front that even if you realize you're being manipulated you are probably going to weep anyway. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 1, 2012
What's missing is honesty. It has been supplanted by artifice. Read full review
45
MovielineStephanie ZacharekMay 4, 2012
The tiniest bit of Hudson's wrinkly-crinkly cuteness goes a long way, and in A Little Bit of Heaven, watching her waste away becomes slow torture. She's like an adorbs Camille. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenMay 3, 2012
The movie perks up during Dinklage's scene as an escort, and screeches to a painful halt for a few conversations with God, who's played by a cloud-roosting Whoopi Goldberg. In a sophomore letdown from "The Woodsman," director Nicole Kassell gives the film no energy or rhythm, while the script pushes all the pre-set buttons. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 3, 2012
In the long history of bad movies about bad illnesses, A Little Bit of Heaven just might be the worst. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerMay 3, 2012
Unsurprisingly for a film detailing terminal disease, this is a largely solemn affair, often verging on morbidity in its elongated deathwatch. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsMay 2, 2012
Bravely or stupidly, both A Little Bit Of Heaven and its heroine charge on as if the introduction of terminal cancer didn't change things that much. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMay 4, 2012
An awkward mixture of melodrama and whimsical romantic comedy that should make the briefest of appearances in theaters before, like its main character, moving on to other planes. It might serve a valuable purpose if it at least prompts viewers to finally schedule those long delayed colonoscopies. Read full review
20
SalonMary Elizabeth WilliamsMay 3, 2012
A moment of silence, please, for Kate Hudson's career. Read full review
20
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMay 3, 2012
There is nothing the slightest bit heavenly about this project, which is wrong-headed in just about every department. Read full review
20
Time OutBen KenigsbergMay 1, 2012
Cringeworthy feel-good weepie, which finds Kate Hudson's vivacious ad-pitch whiz questioning her life choices after being diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. Read full review
20
VarietyLeslie FelperinApr 28, 2012
An only fitfully convincing Hudson leads a strong-on-paper cast, but most of the actors look uncomfortable here, particularly Gael Garcia Bernal as her love interest. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 28, 2012
This film is one long biopsy of pure horror: the tumours of sentimentality and bad acting metastasise everywhere, and Bernal, in particular, is horrendously bad. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumMay 2, 2012
Terminal colon cancer has never looked more fetching than in the critically ill romantic-disease comedy A Little Bit of Heaven. Read full review
10
Village VoiceNick PinkertonMay 1, 2012
A Little Bit of Heaven demands miracles of its cast to keep proceedings from becoming grindingly mawkish and does not get them. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 4, 2012
Droolingly stupid weepie. Useful tip: The movie dies way quicker than she does. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickMay 4, 2012
With the abysmal A Little Bit of Heaven, Kate Hudson's possibly unprecedented losing streak remains unbroken: She hasn't made a good movie since Almost Famous, 12 long years ago. Even Nicolas Cage can't say that. Read full review
0
The New York TimesManohla DargisMay 3, 2012
A cringe-inducing romantic comedy turned cancer tragedy turned inspirational hosanna about living in the moment, embracing your bliss and other clichés. Read full review
0
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMay 3, 2012
As far as director Nicole Kassell and writer Gren Wells are concerned, the C in Big C must stand for cute. The film reaches into the pits of moviegoing hell when it finds Marley on a celestial white couch, ringed in billowing white curtains, communing with God. And God is embodied by Whoopi Goldberg. Read full review
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