Evelyn

The star plays Doyle as just rough enough around the edges to warrant the character's setbacks, but not so unpleasant that the twinkle in his eye is extinguished.

Isn't just a feel-good movie; it's a feel-good-and-righteous movie. And audiences will forgive its flaws.

Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn, and Alan Bates play Desmond's legal eagles, and when joined by Brosnan, the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty Irish settings is a pleasant enough thing, 'tis.

While Brosnan, an Irishman by birth, lays it on bit thick, his performance is surprisingly effective.

Dull but sweet.

There was a fine family drama to be made here, but what we get instead is too sweet to swallow.

Think of it as trope grope. Things are so relatively democratic nowadays that filmmakers have to rummage through the past for a truly shmaltzy story. And they don't come any shmaltzier than this.