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A few praise the film's understated pleasures: Richard Corliss of Time calls it "a small epic with subtle strengths."
It relies heavily on Minnesota-bashing--the film has "more lutefisk and Lutheran gags than a year of A Prairie Home Companion " (Richard Corliss, Time )--and predictable jokes about stage mothers and bitchy teens.
Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)
"It could be the capper segment in a Fox prime-time special on the World's Most Inept Movies " (Richard Corliss, Time ) ...
Critics pant at the steamy, tearful sex scenes between Stella and young Winston (Taye Diggs), although Time 's Richard Corliss dissents, calling it "soft-pore cornography."