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For all its ambition, the movie ends up using great historical events in the service of a dubious sentimentality.
A picaresque story of a simpleton's charmed odyssey through 30 years of tumultuous American history, Forrest Gump is whimsy with a strong cultural spine.
Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
Forrest Gump has the elements of an emotionally gripping story. Yet it feels less like a romance than like a coffee-table book celebrating the magic of special effects.
Skillfully adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth, the story belongs in the company of such sweet classics as Rain Man and Harvey.
A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
This Oscar-winner divided critics in its chronicle of the long journey taken by a slow-witted boy through American history and politics, but there was consensus about the high-caliber acting of Hanks, who won a second, consecutive Best Actor Oscar.
Moving and wonderful, but parent preview a good idea.
Even if its success was overblown, so was the backlash.
...people either like Forrest or shun him; there's no in between. Same with the movie. (Blu-ray Edition)
Forrest may be dumb, but he ain't stupid.
The wearisome Forrest Gump won six Oscars.
Unashamedly sentimental, this is a technically triumphant tear-jerker.
Despite its flaws, this is simply unmissable.
Its flaws don't do it any great harm; it's as comforting as an afternoon nap, but also as refreshing.
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Toeing the centreline like a motherf***er while Rome burns. Can I get an "amen"?
A vile, irresponsible film whose massive success says some very frightening things about America.
Zemeckis's film has lots of heart but little in the way of guts or brains.
Forrest is what we all occasionally wish we could be -- someone who goes through life without second-guessing himself and dwelling on what might have been.
As this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: ignorance is bliss.
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