Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Hollywood films have a tendency to fall apart in the final reel (due to studio pressures and those notorious audience preview comments), but we hoped Van Sant would avoid this pitfall. Alas.
2. Finding Forrester is an easy watch with just enough of a feeling of prestige and respectability about it to please serious moviegoers.
3. An anti-intellectual film about the intellectual life.
4. While it doesn't necessarily offer anything new, it is interesting, if only for the actors involved.
5. Sean Connery nos oferece um dos melhores desempenhos de sua carreira...
6. While Finding Forrester does take us on a familiar journey, it does not sell its audience short.
7. Although it's difficult to imagine writing as a dramatic activity, Connery makes it seem so in the challenging role of a reclusive novelist mentoring a gifted student.
8. Granted, Connery has done the act many times before, and yet he always seems to pull it off with uncommon grace and good humor.
9. There's nothing particularly original about this story, but within its limitations it's done quite well.
10. Earns its keep with the bracing interplay between Mr. Connery's old lion and Mr. Brown's savvy young prodigy.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?
Despite the predictability of its plot and its similarity to Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester has an honest, solid feel to it and good rapport between Connery and Brown.