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Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Must be among the most blatantly manipulative movies ever made. It's cold, calculated and treats its audience like its robotic central character.
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63
Entertains but never quite engages.
20
Kids will be bored, the rest of us baffled.
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A fragmented, episodic feel and a conclusion that seems both remote and remote-controlled.
60
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
A mainstream holiday movie, complete with stupendous special effects, amazing make-up artistry and sumptuous production design.
42
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Director Chris Columbus...seals this comedy in an impenetrable bubble of hollow humanism.
30
The tone is cloying, the running time bloated.
50
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Begins with promise, proceeds in fits and starts, and finally sinks into a cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment.
50
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Except for Williams, the sitcom-meets-sci-fi acting throughout the movie is strictly of television caliber.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s.