Forrest Gump: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb:   13 reviews
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RottenTomatoes:   50 reviews
  • Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)
    42
    Reduces the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of Disney's America.
    Full Review » 18 years ago
  • Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)
    50
    Forrest Gump has the elements of an emotionally gripping story. Yet it feels less like a romance than like a coffee-table book celebrating the magic of special effects.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)
    90
    Skillfully adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth, the story belongs in the company of such sweet classics as Rain Man and Harvey.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)
    80
    Hanks is superb, reemploying the childlike presence he brought to Big.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)
    100
    What a magical movie.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)
    Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)
    A picaresque story of a simpleton's charmed odyssey through 30 years of tumultuous American history, Forrest Gump is whimsy with a strong cultural spine.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • John Hartl Film.com (Top Critic)
    This is one summer movie that doesn't evaporate the minute you leave the theater.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)
    100
    Passionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary of spirit.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)
    80
    Like the best movie actors, Hanks is a superb reactor.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)
    90
    A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
    Full Review » 11 years ago
  • Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com
    67
    This Oscar-winner divided critics in its chronicle of the long journey taken by a slow-witted boy through American history and politics, but there was consensus about the high-caliber acting of Hanks, who won a second, consecutive Best Actor Oscar.
    Full Review » 1 year ago
  • Michael Scheinfeld Common Sense Media
    100
    Moving and wonderful, but parent preview a good idea.
    Full Review » 1 year ago
  • Jeff Giles Bullz-Eye.com
    80
    Even if its success was overblown, so was the backlash.
    Full Review » 2 years ago
  • John J. Puccio DVDTown.com
    80
    Forrest may be dumb, but he ain't stupid.
    Full Review » 3 years ago
  • David Ansen Newsweek
    For all its ambition, the movie ends up using great historical events in the service of a dubious sentimentality.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews
    34
    The wearisome Forrest Gump won six Oscars.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Film4
    80
    Unashamedly sentimental, this is a technically triumphant tear-jerker.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Angie Errigo Empire Magazine
    100
    Despite its flaws, this is simply unmissable.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com
    100
    Its flaws don't do it any great harm; it's as comforting as an afternoon nap, but also as refreshing.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Rory L. Aronsky Screen It!
    85
    See website for more details.
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Walter Chaw Film Freak Central
    25
    Toeing the centreline like a motherf***er while Rome burns. Can I get an "amen"?
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid
    A vile, irresponsible film whose massive success says some very frightening things about America.
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • TV Guide's Movie Guide
    75
    Zemeckis's film has lots of heart but little in the way of guts or brains.
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Time Out
    As this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: ignorance is bliss.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
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