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Forrest Gump Reviews
Forrest Gump is Hollywood film-making at its most corn-fed, sucrose-enriched and calorific; you’ll need a sweet tooth for it.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2024
Zemeckis has made a fast movie about a slow hero; he transforms Forrest's daffy misconceptions into lyrical flights. Forrest Gump has a softer, more delicate touch and a richer current of feeling than any of the other holy-innocent movies.
| Mar 1, 2024
Hanks' performance [is] a triumph of dignity, decency, and warm-hearted humor... Even more than his Oscar-winning achievement in Philadelphia, this is a role that will be remembered as long as people care about great acting.
| Mar 1, 2024
Hanks never strikes a false note, never panders to his mentally slow character nor tries to make him more than he is, despite a script that occasionally calls on him to utter what presumably are intended to be simple profundities.
| Mar 1, 2024
There's an undeniable kick to the idea of recapitulating to the Boomerography as a tale told by an idiot, but the thrill inexorably fades.
| Mar 1, 2024
Hanks' immersion in character and his convincing interaction with fellow players make Forrest Gump -- gimmicks and all -- a pleasure.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2024
The best art takes the biggest chances, thereby losing people who can't stretch with it. Forrest Gump is worth the effort.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2024
It turns tedious toward the end... But when it's good, it's very good, and the way it blends star Tom Hanks, who plays the title character, into actual historical film footage will tickle you to no end.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 1, 2024
Forrest Gump manages to examine some of the basic questions of human life and to add perspective to the two most disruptive decades in modern history.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2024
Far more impressive than Zemeckis' techno-sleight-of-hand is the steadying integrity of Hanks' portrayal. His Southern-fried Holy Fool brings the movie into focus, giving it a heart to make up for its lack of brains.
| Mar 1, 2024
By turns silly and sensitive, romantic and ridiculous, schmaltzy and sincere, this biography of a fictional character is entertaining and touching.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 1, 2024
Forrest Gump doesn't wake people up to their times; it sends them to sleep thinking all is well with them. It makes one feel there's something to be said after all for Oliver Stone.
| Mar 1, 2024
Hanks pulls another stunning coup as the dim-witted, sweet-natured Gump. Speaking in a thick, gulping Southern accent, Hanks creates a character "dumb" enough to be mistreated and ridiculed by other but smart enough to know what's up.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2024
The film's attitude is that intellectual deficiency is not something to be treated with understanding: it should be worshipped as the highest quality to which Americans can aspire.
| Mar 1, 2024
It's part elegy for a nation that likes to gun down its leaders, part Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd comedy... The mix is kind of irresistible, because comedy with such texture is rare.
| Mar 1, 2024
More of interest for what it says about how Americans wish to regard themselves than for its qualities as comedy or drama. Movies can be a magic mirror, and America has been mightily pleased with what it has seen in this tricksy bit of silvered glass.
| Mar 1, 2024
Forrest, we twig instantly, will be as free as that feather, as he bobs on the breezes of history. He'll also, however, be as lavishly artificial and airily bogus a construction, this being a very costly computer-generated feather.
| Mar 1, 2024
It's too specific to be a proper allegory, and too vague to provide a satisfactorily millennial perspective on the last 50 years. Neither is it caustic enough to make one cry, nor soppy enough to make one laugh.
| Feb 6, 2020
Self-ingratiatingly, and for this viewer maddeningly, it blends the comic with the Christly, the satirical with the sentimental, the free-thinking with the fuddy-duddy.
| Feb 4, 2020