The Amati Girls
Fox Family Channel | Release Date: January 19, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
9

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago TribuneJohn Petrakis
All the obligatory plot elements are there. Love and loss, anger and forgiveness, illness and death. But they never flow together to make a coherent story. Instead, they just pop up whenever the script is in trouble. Which is all the time.
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Only a memorably commanding Ruehl transcends the limitations of her two-dimensional character. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Has plenty of warmth, affection and conventional wisdom, but too much of the time it plays out in routine fashion with moments of contrivance. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
We all know how actors overact when they play Italians, and we all know how actors overact when they play brain-damaged characters, so just imagine Knight's performance as a brain-damaged Italian American. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie should be praying to St. Jude, patron saint of lost causes. Maybe he could perform a miracle and turn this into a cable offering, so no one has to buy a ticket to see it. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The characters seem both reduced and idealized, and the plot has turns a dispassionate dramatist would avoid. Read full review
20
VarietyRobert Koehler
Most discomforting of all is the sight of world-class actors stuck in such threadbare material. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
The cast, which includes Cloris Leachman as the sisters' mother and Paul Sorvino, Jamey Sheridan and Mark Harmon as their various men, emote like pros, even as they deplete any audience goodwill left over from past triumphs. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Although the concept seems promising enough, it is undone by disastrous casting decisions and an utter lack of ensemble unity. Read full review
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