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John Q. (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C- Source Brief Review Grade* Arizona Daily Star Phil Villareal "...moronic..." more... D   Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "This hospital hostage melodrama needs emergency surgery." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...the kind of movie Mad magazine prays for. It is so earnest, so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied." more... C- Chicago Tribune Mark Caro "The performances - particularly by Washington, Elise and Duvall - keep you paying attention, but you tire of the movie jerking you around." more... C+ CNN.com Paul Tatara "Washington should leave this one off his resume and get on with his otherwise illustrious career." more... D   E! Online "Paging a script doctor, stat! This preachy, painfully obvious man-against-the-system saga has its heart in the right place--but its brain got left on the operating table." more... C- Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen "Imagine the worst episode of Chicago Hope never aired, and it still won't even begin to describe the agonizing ordeal that is John Q." more... D   Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas "...unafraid to speak the plain truth..." more... A- New York Post Jonathan Foreman "John Q is not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse, it's almost funny." more... C   New York Times Elvis Mitchell "...so ham-fisted that it sabotages its own worthwhile arguments." more... D   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...a subpar episode of ER." more... D   Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek "Its manipulation is so clumsy and obvious -- and, ultimately, it goes so far astray from its original guiding principles -- that it leaves you feeling dangled and dazed." more... F   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "More hokey than heartfelt." more... C+ USA Today Claudia Puig "One can excuse the movie's missteps and melodramatic moments in the greater interest of the strong statement it makes about our health care system." more... B- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)