| 100 |
ReelViews
Passionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary of spirit.
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| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times
What a magical movie.
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| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
Clean up the language, and this little roach of a movie could play the bottom half of a double bill with Rowan and Martin's “The Maltese Bippy.” [26 March 1999, Life, p.9E]
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| 90 |
Washington Post
Zemeckis, an undisputed master of film technology, shows off an equal aptitude for vivid storytelling.
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| 90 |
Film.com
This is an ambitious movie that attempts too much rather than too little.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
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| 90 |
Chicago Reader
The results are skillful, highly affecting, and ultimately more than a little pernicious.
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| 90 |
Variety
Manages the difficult feat of being an intimate, even delicate tale played with an appealingly light touch against an epic backdrop.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
Robert Faires
A remarkable balance of sentimentality and harshness, darkness and light.
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| 88 |
USA Today
Doesn't sound like a very prepossessing title, but prepare to be taken aback by "what's in a name." [6 July 1994, Life, p.1D]
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
Joseph McBride
The film's technical brilliance and sentimental kick seduced many viewers unsuspecting of its polemical intent.
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| 80 |
Time
It's a long drink of water at the fountain of pop-social memory.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
This is a captivating experience.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
At its best, Forrest Gump is a gentle, elegiac fantasy about love and trust.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
It's most successful when it is being off-center, a state of grace it doesn't quite have the nerve to maintain. [6 July 1994, Calendar, p. F-1]
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Has the elements of an emotionally gripping story. Yet is feels less like a romance than like a coffee-table book celebrating the magic of special effect. [6 July 1994, p. C9]
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| 63 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Yet, for all that's wrong here, one thing is wonderfully, blissfully right, and his name is Tom Hanks.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Staff (not credited)
Clearly a great event, Forrest Gump is not, however, a great film. It has the form of an epic without real depth or resonance; the trappings of satire without a coherent attitude; and the semblance of historical revisionism without a critical sensibility.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
It is also glib, shallow, and monotonous, a movie that spends so much time sanctifying its hero that, despite his "innocence," he ends up seeming about as vulnerable as Superman.
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