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100In a time when our cities are wounded, movies like Grand Canyon can help to heal.
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88Grand Canyon successfully recreates the random, haphazard ways in which individual lives intersect, and captures the sense of menace and disintegration that permeate contemporary urban life.
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75Grand Canyon is most gripping when Kasdan shows people waking up to the world and finding that they need more than bromides.
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75Grand Canyon finds Kasdan in firm control of a restrained and intelligent style. Eliciting first-rate performances from a well-chosen cast, he brings these to the screen with graceful eloquence - giving words as much weight as actions.
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70If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best qualities - generosity, common sense and a mature decency that is neither smug nor sentimental.
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70Too often the film languishes as Mr. Kasdan poses Big Questions and then has his characters answer them in conversations that are so casual they seem improvised. [26 Dec 1991]
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The graceful and affecting Grand Canyon, with its flock of fortysomethings, is much more than just "The Bigger Chill."
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70Ridiculously ambitious, though often likable and touching in its sincerity.
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60As sanctimonious as it is sincere, this is a well-meaning picture that is seriously stuck on itself, that can't hide its air of self-satisfaction. [25 Dec 1991]
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60[Grand Canyon] eventually pulls its punches, taking an unconvincingly beatific look at the problems and dangers that have been so persuasively outlined in what has come before. But until it hits that false note, Mr. Kasdan's film is at least as fascinating as it is amorphous.
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60[An] earnest, often moving but not totally successful film.
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60A superbly heartfelt drama for six diverse actors, it is as colorfully striated as its majestic namesake - and almost as wide. The film's depth is another matter altogether.
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50Canyon is similarly slick, though even more heavy-handed in hammering home its points. [26 Dec 1991]
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There are great scenes (many) and terrific performances, especially Glover and Woodard.
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38The cast is equally strong (especially McDonnell), but the vast subject and the shifting settings force Kasdan all over the map. [10 Jan 1992]