Newsies
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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings
- Starring: Christian Bale
- Summary: In 1899 Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike after Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raised the wholesale price on newspapers.
- Director: Kenny Ortega
- Genre(s): Drama, Family, Musical
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Positive: 5 out of 19
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Mixed: 10 out of 19
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Negative: 4 out of 19
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83A rousing, eye-filling, song-and-dance period musical spectacular that - despite a certain inability to decide whether it wants to be a kids' movie or "Les Miserables" - is a surprisingly enjoyable and entertaining throwback to the great movie musical style of the '40s and '50s. [10 Apr 1992]
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75It's a bit of a throwback and a solid family film and, at the time, represented a well-intentioned leap of faith of the sort that studios rarely take.
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50As much as the film may try to peddle warmth and solidarity, it remains disturbingly cold and impersonal, limited by the formulaic writing of Bob Tzudiker and Noni White and stymied by Ortega's apparent distance from his cast. [10 Apr 1992]
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38Newsies is like warmed-over Horatio Alger, complete with such indispensable cliches as the newsboy on crutches, the little kid, and of course the hero's best pal, who has a pretty sister.
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