Field of Dreams
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Universal acclaim- based on 33 Ratings
- Starring: James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta
- Summary:
- Director: Phil Alden Robinson
- Genre(s): Drama, Sport, Fantasy, Family
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 17
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Mixed: 8 out of 17
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Negative: 2 out of 17
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100This is the kind of movie Frank Capra might have directed, and James Stewart might have starred in - a movie about dreams.
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75As shrewd and accomplished as the movie is, there's still something uncomfortably manipulative about it... It doesn't explore its primal theme as much as it exploits it, tapping into the automatic, nearly universal power of guilt and regret. [21 Apr 1989, Friday, p.A]
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60Ultimately, the film relies too heavily on consensual acceptance of baseball iconography as some kind of symbolic shorthand for all kinds of American values. These days, most of us prefer the NBA.
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30The tenuous conclusion is that all this metaphysical hugger-mugger was divinely ordered to reconcile Costner and his father. All those dead players were summoned from that Great Locker Room in the Sky in a painfully false move. [9 May 1989, p.26]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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