A Dog's Purpose Cinema Release Date
The movie A Dog's Purpose is already released on Cinema in the USA and UK.
A canine discovers his true purpose in life over a handful of lifetimes with different owners.
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What do the critics say?
Based on 17 A Dog's Purpose Cinema reviews, A Dog's Purpose gets an average Cinema review score of 46. The score for all versions is 46 based on a total of 17 reviews.
75/100
ew.comCinema
What does it all mean? Why are we here? And exactly how many brutal doggy death scenes are we about to be subjected to in the next 100 minutes?
2642d ago70/100
www.wsj.comCinema
In Lasse Hallström’s screen version of the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, man’s best friend always finds a way home—even if it takes a few lifetimes.
2642d agoC/A+
www.avclub.comCinema
Maybe next time A Dog’s Purpose can be reincarnated as a good movie.
2642d ago60/100
variety.comCinema
Lasse Hallström's controversial film about an oft-reincarnated pooch is guilelessly mawkish in its celebration of the canine spirit.
2642d ago60/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comCinema
A dog is reincarnated several times over in this adaptation of W. Bruce Cameron's best-selling novel.
2642d agoC-/A+
theplaylist.netCinema
Even the most forgiving audiences will find a lot of bones to pick with this one. “A Dog’s Purpose” is an awkward, graceless, meandering and unnecessarily cruel dog movie, and t...
2642d ago55/100
www.thewrap.comCinema
Sentimentality overwhelms in this salute to puppy love (and the power of dog death to milk audience tears).
2642d ago50/100
time.comCinema
Movies about dogs are always excruciating for dog lovers. Even if nothing terrible happens, the anxiety that something might--ticking away minute by paw-scrabbling minute--is to...
2642d ago50/100
www.chicagotribune.comCinema
The real problem here, though, is that it's painfully cheesy pablum, relying on hokey burger joint and Friday night football game stereotypes to take the place of character deve...
2642d ago50/100
www.washingtonpost.comCinema
The purpose of A Dog’s Purpose isn’t to solve philosophical riddles but to warm the cockles of dog lovers’ hearts. That, it does — as well as a wet kiss from a slobbery tongue can.
2642d ago2/5
wegotthiscovered.comCinema
A Dog's Purpose goes the Collateral Beauty route by preying on sadness and not earning its emotional reactions.
2642d ago1.5/4
www.rogerebert.comCinema
The recording artist Steve Albini once described a particularly onerous music-industry assignment as “a job I wouldn’t wish on a dog I didn’t like.”
2642d ago1.5/4
www.rollingstone.comCinema
Canine reincarnation story tugs at the heartstrings – and hits your gag reflex, thanks to some questionable filmmaking practices.
2642d ago30/100
www.nytimes.comCinema
You don’t need an animal-rights group’s boycott to give you permission to avoid A Dog’s Purpose. You can skip it just because it’s clumsily manipulative dreck.
2642d ago30/100
www.villagevoice.comCinema
A Dog’s Purpose, based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, combines the philosophical belief that living beings are reborn into a different physical body after biological death wi...
2642d ago.5/4
www.slantmagazine.comCinema
Lasse Hallström's gooey film exists only to offer comforting reassurances about dogs' natural servility.
2642d ago.5/5
www.austinchronicle.comCinema
A misguided and utterly tone-deaf Hallmark card to the canis lupus familiaris and the people who love them.
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