- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Jul 6, 1994
- Starring: Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Sally Field, Tom Hanks
- Summary: A sweeping look at thirty tumultuous years of American history seen through the eyes of the charmed simpleton Forrest Gump (Hanks).
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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100What a magical movie.
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100Clean up the language, and this little roach of a movie could play the bottom half of a double bill with Rowan and Martin's The Maltese Bippy. [26 March 1999, Life, p.9E]
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80The film's technical brilliance and sentimental kick seduced many viewers unsuspecting of its polemical intent.
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60Clearly a great event, Forrest Gump is not, however, a great film. It has the form of an epic without real depth or resonance; the trappings of satire without a coherent attitude; and the semblance of historical revisionism without a critical sensibility.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 129 out of 143
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Mixed: 4 out of 143
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Negative: 10 out of 143
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