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The wrong version of Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael must have been released, because this sloppy-looking film never should have been allowed into theaters. [11 Oct 1990]
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Caryn James
Though ''Roxy Carmichael'' is never as fresh or powerful as it might have been, it is a sweetly engaging film in the Barry Levinson school: just when you think it might fall into a bottomless pit of sentimentality, it stops short.
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As the movie slowly slogs along to its dreary, moralistic conclusion, Ryder`s sharp presence seems to recede into a candy-colored fog of sentimentality.
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Where the movie sabotages her, though, is by insisting that all she really wants is to be like everyone else.
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Entertainment Weekly by Nicholas Fonseca
An offbeat pic pointlessly oversaturated with grating characters who look like they got lost on their way to a John Waters fan club convention.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The movie sinks into contrived plot manipulation.