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===Critical response===
{{RT data|prose|Washington's performance rises above the material, but ''John Q'' pounds the audience over the head with its message.|ref=yes}} {{Metacritic film prose|30|33|ref=yes|access-date=2025-04-30}} Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cinemascore |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date=2018-12-20}}</ref>

[[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave it a "C", stating that "Cassavetes thinks he's making ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]'' with a cause, but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill, didactic cartoon."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|title=John Q.|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/02/20/john-q-5/|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=August 10, 2022|date=February 20, 2002|archive-date=August 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810113702/https://ew.com/article/2002/02/20/john-q-5/|url-status=live}}</ref>