Forrest Gump Reviews
Top CriticThis tall tale may reach monumental proportions, but Forrest Gump always keeps its magical airiness and grace.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Credit for the success of the film has to start with director Robert Zemeckis, who has taken his Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit success and parlayed it into a more mature, yet equally entertaining, film.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Radio Times
One can sneer at it, but one can't ignore it.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
All this might have seemed like pressing optimism a bit without the bland but still potent presence of Tom Hanks at its centre, clearly on his way to another Oscar nomination.
LarsenOnFilm
...not a wishful paean to a fantasy version of America, but a portrait of America - its awfulness and beauty, promise and pain - as seen through the eyes of an innocent.
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| Original Score: 4/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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| Original Score: B
Common Sense Media
Moving and wonderful, but parent preview a good idea.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Bullz-Eye.com
Even if its success was overblown, so was the backlash.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Metropolis
Forrest may be dumb, but he ain't stupid.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Film4
Unashamedly sentimental, this is a technically triumphant tear-jerker.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
Despite its flaws, this is simply unmissable.
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| Original Score: 5/5
eFilmCritic.com
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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| Original Score: 5/5
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.
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| Original Score: 8.5/10
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Zemeckis's film has lots of heart but little in the way of guts or brains.
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| Original Score: 3/4
rec.arts.movies.reviews
This film is both serious and funny, entertaining and thought-provoking and it could make people laugh and cry with equal degree of ease.
Full Review | Original Score: 8/10
Zap2it.com
A long lovely movie with Hanks playing a sort of goofy Everyman who shows that any of us can make it if we simply persist.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Laramie Movie Scope
The good-natured humor is wonderful in the film, but the thing that makes it so entertaining is how it hits all the human emotions dead-center without resorting to cheap melodrama.
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| Original Score: A
