Cast Away (2000)
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New York Post Lou Lumenick
A really classic adventure yarn with one of Hollywood's great actors hitting one out of the ballpark. If you're seeing only one movie this season, this is the obvious choice.
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100
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Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
It's a startling physical transformation, as Noland goes from flabby desk jockey to lean, mean fishing machine. But even more remarkable is the mental transformation Hanks effects.
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90
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TNT RoughCut Andy Klein
Zemeckis is more interested here in getting us thinking (and feeling) than in telling us what to think.
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89
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Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
A handsomely constructed and executed movie, the kind of effort that deserves appreciation, on its own terms, for what it both dares and accomplishes.
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80
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
At its best, Cast Away, like "Titanic," awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance.
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75
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Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The middle 90 minutes, which put Hanks alone on an island without voice-over narration or even a musical background, is as risky as anything Hollywood did this year.
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75
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Hanks's extraordinary acting keeps the adventure involving even though the beginning is predictable, the middle is uneven, and the finale slips into Zemeckis's patented brand of "Forrest Gump" fuzziness.
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75
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Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
It's a simple message, and it's delivered with a grace and subtlety that's rare in would-be blockbusters.
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50
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Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Too full of its own heavy breathing to work as the primordial storytelling it's aiming for--a so-so adventure story is closer to the mark.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It will bring joy in a way certainly not intended, as one of the most gloriously and unwittingly silly films ever devised by a major American filmmaker.
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