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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for MSN Movies (470) on 02 Feb 2012

If you think it's absolutely not your kind of thing, you might be surprised…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 02 Feb 2012

A thematically rich drama about the efforts to save three trapped whales that speaks volumes about cross-cultural misunderstandings, media…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 02 Feb 2012

It's not as inspiring or heartwarming as it should be, and footage during the credits suggest it would have made a better documentary…

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By John Hazelton (142) for Screen International (2,241) on 02 Feb 2012

A real life-based drama that's pleasantly warm but overly busy and short on emotional oomph…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Time (1,811) on 02 Feb 2012

This family-friendly outing captures the story's human snowball effect with a measure of sly, satirical wit, if also an excess of boilerplate…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 02 Feb 2012

It's not as inspiring or heartwarming as it should be, and footage during the credits suggest it would have made a better documentary…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 02 Feb 2012

Big Miracle is a family movie fitted with the usual appeals to multiple audiences, and though tots, teens and younger parents might find the…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Feb 2012

It's a screwball comedy, with a possible debt to Preston Sturges's 1942 film, The Miracle of Morgan Creek, a movie inspired by the Dionne quintuplets,…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Feb 2012

Big Miracle is not the most sophisticated adventure film, but compared with most family movies, it's practically something out of Noel Coward…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 02 Feb 2012

Big Miracle tells its sort-of-true version of events in a democratic and humane fashion, by way of a rangy, lively group of competing interests…

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By Janice Page (130) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 02 Feb 2012

It needs only to entertain. And that it does thoroughly, leaving us both charmed and enriched without feeling very preached at. Praise be…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 02 Feb 2012

Big Miracle even throws in an unexpected bonus, a surprise last-minute cameo that is funny without being the slightest bit mean, just like…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 02 Feb 2012

Rounded, redemptive and refreshingly free of cynicism…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 02 Feb 2012

Kwapis fills small roles with great character actors like Stephen Root, Andrew Daly, Kathy Baker, Tim Blake Nelson, John Michael Higgins, Rob…

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By Rachel Saltz (165) for New York Times (5,786) on 02 Feb 2012

Big Miracle gets off to a shaky start, but once revved up, it becomes an involving work-against-the-clock-and-the-odds action movie…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 02 Feb 2012

But there's so much going on in Big Miracle that the biggest miracle of all – the whales at the center of the story, get lost amid all the…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 02 Feb 2012

Inspiring, real and heartwarming, Big Miracle is something of a miracle itself - a family film everyone in the family can love that doesn't…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 02 Feb 2012

The genuinely sweet nature of this sometimes clunky movie is mixed with a little sass, and wins you over…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 02 Feb 2012

It's certainly a worthy saga…

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By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Feb 2012

Any goodwill it boasts is terminally suppressed, buried beneath a layer of bullshit as thick as blubber…

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