 Many critics are giving the Cuba Gooding Jr. starrer Radio a lot of static. "It's hard to say what's more offensive about the out-of-tune Radio -- Cuba Gooding Jr. trying to ingratiate himself by mugging up a storm as a mentally challenged man, or the mawkish narrative surrounding him like so much syrup," comments Lou Lumenick in the New York Post. Jan Stuart of Newsday is another critic who views the film as a "bogus exercise in audience manipulation." Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe calls it, simply, "hogwash." To Philip Kennicott of the Washington Post, it's "a train wreck of a film lying inert where the tracks of the Feel Good Line cross the Path of Good Intentions." And Joe Morgenstern concludes in the Wall Street Journal that "the destruction of [Cuba Gooding Jr.'s] once promising career proceeds apace." |
