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John Q
30
Metascore
33 reviews · Provided by
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80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An all-stops-out rabble-rouser that hurls a broadside at America's medical insurance crisis.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
This is an A-list cast toiling on a C-list screenplay.
50
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse, it's almost funny.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It's as forgettable as they come.
50
Slate
David Edelstein
Slate
David Edelstein
Denzel Washington is so powerfully earnest an actor that you never want to laugh at him -- even when you ought to be in stitches.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie could have used a brain transplant. It doesn't explore injustice -- it just exploits it.
30
The New Yorker
David Denby
The New Yorker
David Denby
Falls below even minimal standards of dramatic decency. John Q is a trashy, opportunistic piece of pop demagoguery. [4 Mar 2002, p. 90]
25
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Washington can't save a picture that spends so much time worrying about a heart that it loses its head.
20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
So lacking in shame that it finally seems laughable.
0
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Every so often a movie transcends stupidity and soars into the empyrean of true idiocy. John Q. is such a movie.
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