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75Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s.
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70Captivating an audience from the get-go and drawing our attention and emotions ever deeper into the layered mysteries of a dreamy fable.
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67More a meditation on the nature of life itself than anything else, and a welcome respite from Robin Williams, the emotion sponge.
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63Entertains but never quite engages.
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63A fragmented, episodic feel and a conclusion that seems both remote and remote-controlled.
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63Few actors apart from Williams could bring it off.
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63May wrestle with big ideas, but it does so through a succession of small emotional moments.
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60A mainstream holiday movie, complete with stupendous special effects, amazing make-up artistry and sumptuous production design.
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60Though Williams gives one of his better performances in recent years -- finding the right combination of humor and restraint for this role -- none of the human characters are fleshed out in any way.
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50Begins with promise, proceeds in fits and starts, and finally sinks into a cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment.
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50Has heart, but lacks bite.
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50Kids may yawn at the movie's dawdling pace.
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50The once-funny Robin Williams is still stuck in his excruciating touchy-feely mode.
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50Has a certain slow, mechanical quality.
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50Reinforcing the chasm between movie magic and wishful thinking.
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50The sad fact is Williams is at his best while trapped in Andrew's original sleek form. His performance is subtle, his reactions restrained. The more Robin is exposed, the more ham is served.
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50Except for Williams, the sitcom-meets-sci-fi acting throughout the movie is strictly of television caliber.
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50Columbus' approach is intended to cloak such topics as mortality and human identity in the warm glow of greeting card sentiment, which renders the prescription palatable for mass consumption but hopelessly diluted.
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42Director Chris Columbus...seals this comedy in an impenetrable bubble of hollow humanism.
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40The play for the heartstrings is so cold and calculated that the movie's sentimentality feels as synthetic as its hero, and the philosophy is simpleminded and lazy.
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40The childish humor and sensationalistic effects undercut the movie's philosophical agenda.
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38This saga of one robot's determined quest to become human is so coldly calculated it could give you frostbite.
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38I'll be darned if I can think of a more excruciating, ponderous, remarkably unfunny and inert cinemagoing experience to come down the pike in ages.
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33You're likelier to shrink in astonished horror from it than laugh.
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30With this desperately eager-to-please fable based on a short story and novel by Isaac Asimov, director Chris Columbus clinches his berth as the master of shiny-happy message movies.
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30Amid the complacent self-congratulation...is a bizarre reactionary bent.
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30It's not really a kids' film, nor it is particularly funny, by either design or execution. It is, rather, Columbus' latest attempt at a comically tinged tearjerker.
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30The tone is cloying, the running time bloated.
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30A cold, protracted and unemotional affair.
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25Must be among the most blatantly manipulative movies ever made. It's cold, calculated and treats its audience like its robotic central character.
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20Kids will be bored, the rest of us baffled.
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JonR10This movie made me think how life should be much more appreciated than it already is. Probably one of the most emotional films I have seen.
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