Free Willy: Critic Reviews

62%
MovieWeb:   0 reviews
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RottenTomatoes:   28 reviews
  • Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)
    59
    Full Review » 19 years ago
  • Vincent Canby New York Times (Top Critic)
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Hal Hinson Washington Post (Top Critic)
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)
    88
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Leonard Klady Variety (Top Critic)
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)
    63
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Charles Cassady Common Sense Media
    80
    A wayward boy befriends a moody killer whale.
    Full Review » 1 year ago
  • Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan
    60
    Save the whale! Still a good family film with a great Michael Jackson title song.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Clint Morris Moviehole
    60
    Good family flick
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Time Out
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • John Wirt Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
    40
    Schmaltzy.
    Full Review » 7 years ago
  • Stefan Birgir Stefansson sbs.is
    40
    Keiko sure knows how to jump
    Full Review » 7 years ago
  • Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com
    60
    Full Review » 7 years ago
  • Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette
    60
    Full Review » 8 years ago
  • Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
    40
    Gooey pap that drowns in its own phoniness.
    Full Review » 8 years ago
  • Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal
    60
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Bob Bloom Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
    60
    A good family picture that does not get too sweet; worth a look.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice
    Free Willy focuses on the friendship between a troubled 12-year-old boy and an orca at an adventure park. It will appeal tremendously to all "friends of nature," a term coined by Albert Schweitzer.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • John J. Puccio DVDTown.com
    60
    ...many adults will find it too blatantly manipulative, but all the same it is decent, lightweight, juvenile entertainment.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Christopher Null Filmcritic.com
    50
    Michael Madsen as a "good guy" foster father? Lori Petty as a whale trainer? Who cast ths movie!?).
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com
    40
    It's like Lassie with whales. Only siller.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Brian J. Arthurs Beach Reporter (Southern California)
    40
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Audrey Rock-Richardson Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)
    40
    Inspiring environmental tale for the kiddie-set.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Movieline
    Full Review » 10 years ago
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