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55 out of 100

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7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 121 Ratings

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  • Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones, Chi McBride, Tom Hanks
  • Summary: The Terminal tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Hanks), a visitor to New York City from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at John F. Kennedy International Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal's international transit lounge until the war at home is over. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant (Zeta-Jones). (DreamWorks)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 41
  3. Negative: 5 out of 41
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    A sweet and delicate comedy, a film to make you hold your breath, it is so precisely devised. It has big laughs, but it never seems to make an effort for them.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    58
    I didn't mind The Terminal, but I didn't really buy it, either. Spielberg has crafted the film with a proficiency as seamless, and impersonal, as the setting, and you may feel, after a while, that you're longing for your departure time.
  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    38
    The net result is a few shaky laughs and one unwavering sensation -- that The Terminal is interminable.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 64
  3. Negative: 17 out of 64
  1. gm101
    10
    This is definitely one of my all time favorite movies (and this is coming from someone who loves critically loathed summer blockbusters). Great movie to watch before travelling.… Expand
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  2. PatC.
    4
    Cheap drawn-out overdramatization and awkward slapstick blows situations that were trying to ring true. Spielberg needs to go back to making movies where the characters are carbon-based life forms.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. RyanM.
    3
    This movie tries to charm in the cliched Spielberg way. But except for a few moments, this movie disappoints. Completely absurd and unbelievable, the story becomes more and more ridiculous as the movie progresses. Hanks is also disappointing with a stereotypical and uneven performance. This Spielberg fairytale is one of his worst.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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