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Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Starring: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna
  • Summary: In this third installment of Barry Levinson's Baltimore trilogy, the youngest son of a middle-class Jewish family pushes the accepted social boundaries of the day by dressing as Hitler for Halloween and pursuing a romantic friendship with a black classmate, as his brother pursues a girl from the other side of the tracks, and his father maintains a numbers racket. Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 31
  2. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Levinson is so skillful at developing personalities, even among the story's would-be villains, that by the halfway point of the movie, every gesture and expression has unexpected depth and texture. The performances are across-the-board superb.
  2. A disarmingly funny, clear-eyed, and affectionate memory piece.
  3. Buoyant with quiet smiles and unpretentious fondness.
  4. 60
    I could have done more with the edgy humor of "Diner" and "Tin Men" and less of the mythmaking of "Avalon."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2

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