Metacritic reviews

This feel-good motion picture is intelligently written and expertly directed.

Within the limits and cliches of utterly predictable material, Mr. Coppola is still finally able to make this one from the heart.

it's a synthetic, rather drab movie, one that seems linked less to experience, or even to fantasy, than to other movies - "Big," of course, and also "E.T.," "Mask," and "Phenomenon."

Francis Ford Coppola's Jack has its affecting moments, but in the end illustrates the pitfalls of the "concept" movie, the kind you can boil down to a one-line hook.

The formula for Robin Williams' childish stick wares dangerously thin this time out.

[Robin Williams] has been ill-served by a screenplay that isn't curious about what his life would really be like.

Jack is more depressing than the weight of its demerits because of the quality of the work both these men have done before.

Jack is a warm, heartfelt disaster that shows that life is fleeting but movies can be very long indeed.

One is left wondering why Williams has granted early retirement to his inner anarchist, what dark need compels a great clown to become a sad, fuzzy one in movies only Bob Dole - faking it -could love.

A listless family comedy and bland morality primer.