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Ragtime
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57 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    Rgatime is a loving, beautifully mounted, graceful film that creates its characters with great clarity.
  2. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jay Scott
    88
    Ragtime itself twinkles with delight - perhaps only an immigrant, and a recent one, could have made this film, which looks squarely at the social problems gnawing at North America but which finds, within them and without them, cause for hope. [20 Nov 1981]
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  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    80
    The page-turning joys of E.L. Doctorow's bestselling Ragtime, which dizzily and entertainingly charted a kaleidoscopic vision of a turn-of-century America in the midst of intense social change, have been realized almost completely in Milos Forman's superbly crafted screen adaptation.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    75
    Ambitious, but only sporadically engaging.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Vincent Canby
    60
    The movie is sorrowful, funny and beautiful. It is also, finally, very unsatisfactory.
  6. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    60
    Forman and Weller have created an impressive but strangely lopsided movie.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Michael Blowen
    38
    Except for the evocative sets and Randy Newman's upbeat musical score, Ragtime is better read than seen. [18 Dec 1981]
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  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    20
    What's left is a curiously disconnected illustration of American racism, which nevertheless fails to realize the power and irony inherent in its pop-Marxist analysis.
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