Forrest Gump Reviews
This 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
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.
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Top CriticAs this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: ignorance is bliss.
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Skillfully adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth, the story belongs in the company of such sweet classics as Rain Man and Harvey.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
Like the best movie actors, Hanks is a superb reactor.
| Original Score: 4/5
This is one summer movie that doesn't evaporate the minute you leave the theater.
Hanks is so charming as Gump, so heroic in his guilelessness and belief in simple virtues, that you want to excuse the film's excesses and overlook Zemeckis' weakness for easy, maudlin sentiment.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Passionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary of spirit.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Hanks is superb, reemploying the childlike presence he brought to Big.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Reduces the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of Disney's America.
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| Original Score: C
