Sam & Kate

Better with the in-between moments...When the chaacters are just interacting quietly they convey a great deal and the events interrupt the delicacy of those scenes.

These lessons are all fine and good, but it takes well over an hour into the 110-minute run time for “Sam & Kate” to reveal any conflict worth paying attention to.

Sam and Kate are such broad archetypes that it’s hard to feel the depth of their scars or the spark of their chemistry.

Sam & Kate doesn't try to elicit big emotional responses, but that's exactly why it gets them.

Sam and Kate is a deeply unassuming dramedy that offers no great revelations about the human condition, but doesn’t intend to. It’s lightly poignant fodder made for adult viewers weary of spectacle

As you'd expect from generations of Hollywood royalty, it's beautifully acted throughout.

Dull conversations and lackluster scenes prevent Sam & Kate from being the great romantic dramedy that it wants to be. The acting is admirable though, and the film's best moments make up for any flaws. The movie is better at depicting grief than romance.

This is pretty good. I would say the casting is a trick, but it's a natural.

Parents and kids working together adds to an overall sense of niceness that suffuses Sam and Kate as its characters sort through challenges many people face in an ordinary world.

No one wears a cape, but all four of these people, says LeGallo, who wrote the script, are heroes. They’ve survived to this point overcoming personal obstacles. Now fate brings them together and it’s not as obvious as you might think.