It's good to see [Marc Webb] back working on more intimate material, even though Gifted isn't entirely satisfactory.

Gifted is not your run-of-the-mill melodrama. More like an exceptional melodrama. It still plays the violin, if you get what I mean, but the violinist is skilful.

Gifted gives glorified TV movies a better name.

This story is markedly better when it is out of the courtroom or the bedroom and showcasing the bond of memories being made and principles being built by an impressionable child and her dutiful guardian.