Spoiler Alert

"Nuanced and touching."

"Showalter and his writers have a persuasive ability to defuse the looming threat of sentimentality with comedy."

"Where other movies might indulge glibness or Oscar-clip force, Spoiler Alert opts for subtlety and clarity."

"To the film’s credit, it never wallows in false sentimentality or asks us to feel pity..."

"Quietly devastating."

"This is a nice film. A sweet film. A film you can watch with your mother-in-law."

"A well-acted movie with far more authentic feeling than mawkishness..."

"Parsons and Aldridge have fantastic chemistry together."

"Spoiler Alert tries too hard to distance itself from the tragedy at its centre..."

"Unlike so many “illness movies” — I’m looking at you, Nicholas Sparks — Kit’s life is not mined for the lessons it teaches us."

"Kneecapped by the plainness of its storytelling, and only marginally saved by its performances."

"Showalter ultimately succeeds because he never loses focus of the heart at the core of his story."

"Spoiler alert: we deserve better."

"A bigger problem is that the so-called sincere dialogue is either blunter than a soap opera... or hammier than a Hawaiian pizza..."

"Unfortunately, too much of the movie simply doesn’t work."