The Secret: Dare to Dream
Roadside Attractions | Release Date (Streaming): July 31, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Arizona RepublicElizabeth MontgomeryJul 30, 2020
Once you start this film, you might not want it to end. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerJul 31, 2020
Despite most everything else in the movie being predictable, Bray’s mystery is hard to guess. Read full review
45
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJul 30, 2020
Hopefully the deceptively stern ideological stance of The Secret has been dampened enough by Tennant and his cast’s efforts (the great Celia Weston is also a standout as Miranda’s hovering, lightly nagging mother-in-law) that only the better, more wanly encouraging notes of its decidedly capitalist fantasy will linger in people’s minds. Read full review
40
CNNBrian LowryAug 1, 2020
The Secret: Dare to Dream at best feels like a tepid distraction even for those receptive to its blueprint, far from the stuff that dreams are made of. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJul 30, 2020
Shorn of its New Age platitudes, the film works reasonably well as a mature, feel-good romance, especially since Holmes and Lucas are so engaging that you find yourselves rooting for their characters to get together. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJul 30, 2020
It’s mostly kind of tolerable in a low stakes, rosé-wine-swigging way, inoffensively middling rather than rotten, an easy, undemanding afternoon watch with nothing of note other than a few laughably dumb moments.. Read full review
30
VarietyCourtney HowardJul 30, 2020
Littered with confounding clichés and hokey devices, director/co-writer Andy Tennant’s feature is the exact inverse of what a passionate romance should aspire to be, let alone one preaching the power of positivity. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustJul 30, 2020
It’s competent filmmaking in the service of lousy storytelling. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireAug 3, 2020
There is nothing new, exciting or particularly challenging about what The Secret: Dare to Dream is selling. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJul 31, 2020
Director Andy Tennant’s tone, by the way, resembles that of religious films, like last year’s “Breakthrough” with Chrissy Metz. Holmes is wholesome, and her third-wheel suitor, Tuck (Jerry O’Connell), is well-intended, if tortilla-flat. The music is cheesy and inspirational. But the whole thing is covered in materialist grime. Read full review
25
UproxxVince ManciniJul 30, 2020
Dare To Dream delivers The Secret‘s philosophy in classic Nicholas Sparks movie format, complete with deferred scholarships, single mothers finding love, and copious Spanish moss. Read full review
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