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By Sean O'connell (919) for Charlotte Weekly (185) on 11 May 2006

The message remains fantastic for kids, even if the director allows his events to teeter toward comical near the end…

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By Debraw. (1) on 09 May 2006

Akeelah and the Bee is such a pleasant retreat from the norm in movies today. Great acting and the content is not sappy for its PG rating…

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By Susan (19) on 06 May 2006

Best movie thus far this year. If you think you can predict how it ends, you are wrong. Great acting all around…

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By Mase (32) on 05 May 2006

Well we already have the far superior documentary spellbound and also the miscalculated bee season. this fits somwhere between…

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By Chads. (664) on 05 May 2006

Glory Road was a feel-contrived film, and even though Akeelah and the Bee is a slave to formula like the Don Haskins biopic, this variation…

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By Judyt. (45) on 05 May 2006

An almost excellent movie. A real feel good film and there's nothing wrong with that especially these days…

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By Cari (1) on 05 May 2006

Yes it's predictable, but still it's a nice feel good/family flick. I'll get the DVD when it comes out…

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By Christopher Smith (624) for Bangor Daily News (Maine) (624) on 04 May 2006

What the movie gets exactly right is its knowledge that for some, realizing their first major accomplishment has nothing to do with throwing…

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By Paulk. (80) on 03 May 2006

Great! One of the best films I've seen so far this year. Keke Palmer is spot on and I thoroughly enjoyed the unconventional ending…

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By Rubin Safaya (167) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 02 May 2006

It had the potential... to be great had it avoided running lockstep with the structure of lesser films…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 02 May 2006

There's just too much charm, too much heart, too much obvious sincerity and too much genuine quality to allow the film to be blown off…

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By Jays. (14) on 02 May 2006

Almost unbearably predictable…

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By Jonathan R. Perry (254) for Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (351) on 01 May 2006

There's never a moment when we're not certain everything will turn out OK…

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By Markb. (197) on 01 May 2006

Midway through 2002's world-class, Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound, someone describes those nationwide spelling bees that have become…

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By Eric Lurio (584) for Greenwich Village Gazette (481) on 30 Apr 2006

It's not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience…

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By Dwilly (66) on 29 Apr 2006

Very cool in the way of inspirational stories about the transformational power of education…

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By Kentg. (1) on 28 Apr 2006

My wife, myself and my 6 year old son loved this film, and I would recommend it to anyone…

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By Anderson Jones (4) for FilmStew.com (638) on 27 Apr 2006

E-x-h-i-l-i-r-a-t-o-r-y-; g-l-a-d-d-e-n-i-n-g; s-a-l-u-b-r-i-o-u-s. Spell it any way you want, this one's a keeper…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 27 Apr 2006

You could be cynical about the first movie produced by the coffee colossus Starbucks…

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By Jeffrey Westhoff (767) for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (767) on 27 Apr 2006

Great family films often entertain and inspire, but Akeelah and the Bee teaches useful words as well…

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