Gibson handles ably, if not imaginatively, this cross between a typical episode of The Wonder Years and a hothouse family melodrama in the vein of The Prince of Tides.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2023

Stahl carries the film, with a fine performance balanced on the preadolescent cusp of spontaneity and craft. Once again, the story is about coming of age. Growing up, it seems, never goes out of fashion.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2019

The Man Without a Face is such a noble, well-intentioned little film that one feels like an ogre picking on it. Alternately poky and melodramatic--and occasionally witty and insightful--the uneven screenplay too often strains credibility.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

intriguing and involving

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 12, 2005

One of the best movies of Gibson's career

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2002

Offers a glimpse of grace as two individuals restore each other's souls with gifts of trust and love

Full Review | Aug 20, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2002

Watchable weepie about the importance of books vs. covers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2002

The movie is Gibson's debut as a director, and shows him not only with a good visual sense, but with what is even rarer, the confidence to know what needs to be told and what can be left unsaid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000