Biloxi Blues Reviews
Top CriticBroderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Empire Magazine
The combination of Neil Simon and Mike Nichols has the pair of them back to somewhere near their best.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
An intelligent, tightly constructed film which manages to satirize both the military and the process of growing up.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Playing a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The acting honors are stolen by Christopher Walken.
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| Original Score: C+
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Odd blend of comedy and terrorizing between Broderick and Walken.
| Original Score: 3/5
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Great performances elevate Simon's amusing and nostalgic tale.
| Original Score: 4/5
Spirituality and Practice
Charts a Jewish boy's rite of passage into adulthood during 1943 as an Army Recruit.
With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own
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| Original Score: 4/5
Moviehole
Excellent Performances, but not a shade on 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'
| Original Score: 3/5
eFilmCritic.com
Broderick's great, Walken's the king, and Neil Simon supplies the words. Plus it's a great little military comedy.
| Original Score: 4/5
The movie Mike Nichols has directed from the play is pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable, and tells us less about the characters than we already know.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues.
