Despite all the expert acting that goes into it, Moonlight Mile finally becomes a militantly soulful exercise. It makes even the most sensitive, tenderhearted viewer feel somehow inadequate. That's not a good feeling.
– Susan Stark,
Detroit News,
4 Oct 2002
fresh:
A gem of a movie.
– Eric Harrison,
Houston Chronicle,
4 Oct 2002
rotten:
It's too quirky, too scripted, too ... well, like a movie.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
4 Oct 2002
fresh:
An awfully good, achingly human picture.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
4 Nov 2002
rotten:
With a relentless playlist of rock stand-bys, the film careers between jaunty and maudlin.