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Cast Away
2020
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43
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4.1
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4.0
But its lessons about the need to sustain life even when it seems to have lost all meaning are refreshingly honest.
Austin Chronicle
3.8
I find it fascinating when a movie just watches somebody doing something.
Rogerebert
4.0
BTW, the FedEx company should be nominated for Best Supporting Actor in this film.Wow.
JoBlo
5.0
Hope is the secret buried inside us all waiting to rise to the surface when we need it most.
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
The striking visuals and penetrating silence, give this film a surprising depth to its storytelling.
Sover
3.5
Its hard to know what to make of a movie in which the hero ponders a metaphorical crossroads in his life while standing at a literal crossroads.Insipi ..
Tv Guide
2.5
It seems Hollywood does not; if it ever did, it has forgotten it.
Lariat
3.8
How do you pick up the pieces of your life when as far as everyone is concerned, your life ended four years ago
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Tweet Cast Away Jim Lane By This article was published on 05.10.01 Advertisement A Fed Ex efficiency expert (Tom Hanks) stamps through life bellowing ..
News Review
4.0
Although he gets back in time to be with her on Christmas Eve, Chuck gets a page that he must leave for yet another job.
Screen It
4.0
Yes, its very slow (and a half hour couldve been cut fairly easily), but at the same time the films scale drives home the point beautifully.As does a ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
Cast Away then, is well worth seeing an enjoyable, moving drama in which youll believe a man can love a volleyball.
View London
4.0
Whatever the retouches, audiences will welcome this final package.
Film Journal
5.0
During one of the most terrifying airplane disaster sequences on film, I almost felt I was inside the doomed craft as it plunged into those violent wa ..
Reel Talk Reviews
5.0
Every once and a while, every two or three years, a movie comes along with such power, such strength, and such drama, it makes me realize maybe Hollyw ..
Cinema Crazed
4.0
Hanks commands attention throughout and, as Noland starts talking to a washed up volleyball (dubbed Wilson after its brand name), makes a relationship ..
Empire
3.0
There is no music and almost no dialogue.Cast Away is brutal and painful.
Common Sense Media
1.3
Instead 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 ..
Sf Gate
4.0
For much of the time, Hanks is on screen by himself, his only dialogue addressed to an inanimate ball. A lesser performer would have made it an unendu ..
Bbc
4.0
But most of the credit for keeping our attention goes to the island boy.If theres anyone who can make this ordeal and when youre plumb out of characte ..
Washington Post
3.8
The other principals in the cast are better, but not too much better.
Mr Brown Movies
5.0
Cast Away is a cinematic triumph, a motion picture so rich with honest emotions and ideas that it comes as a relative surprise that this is a big budg ..
The Movie Boy
4.0
One thing is bound to come out of Cast Away a deserved best actor nomination for Hanks.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
And touching and smart and willing to grant the audience a modicum of intelligence.
Flickfilosopher
5.0
In fact, those expecting a routine adventure film may be disappointed.
ReelViews
3.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
3.1
Even though its too much of a feel good flick to be a sincere drama about survival, I must admit I enjoyed it.
Spliced Wire
3.8
The drama in Cast Away is sad and low key.The movies pleasures come from Chucks minor successes in staying alive.
Movie Habit
5.0
Well, it turns out that this isnt a film that relies on suspense anyway.
Deseret News
4.5
Beautifully crafted and shot, Cast Away works on many levels, and the fact that the script never falls into predictable contrivance is one of its grea ..
Urban Cine File
5.0
One challenge for an essentially one actor lost on a deserted island picture is repetition and boredom.
Varia Gate
2.5
Lastly, Im not a one to harshly criticize any production for picking up a few extra bucks on product sponsorship, but this presentation is one long co ..
Ross Anthony
4.5
Remains one of the more vividly transporting films Ive come into contact with. Its heartbreaking, darkly comedic, bravely observational, and ultimatel ..
Brian Or Ndorf
5.0
2000s Cast Away didnt merely concern a marooned mans perseverance of spirit.
The Filmy Ap
3.8
This is Mr. Zemeckis most confident directing to date. If he only had as much faith in his audience.
Big Picture Big Sound
4.5
Zemeckis thinks this is the ending we should have, yet it is a totally unsatisfying one.So we are insulted twice by them in giving away the whole movi ..
ComingSoon
4.4
Cast Away remains daring and quite unique even though it could have been even more, and Hanks performance is really something to be seen.
Montreal Film Journal
4.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
4.5
The effectiveness of some of the films surprises may be compromised.
Film Quips Online
4.2
I felt quiet, muted, thoughtful.I was glad I had seen it, glad it had been made.
Decent Films
3.8
Another major point: credit should be given for visual storytelling without dialogue.
Flip Side Archive
3.2
Not only does the denouement feel phony and abbreviated, but the script insists on tacking on a displaced, heavy handed, painfully unsubtle ending tha ..
Film Blather
5.0
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Rochester Goes Out
3.0
Granted, this is enough to make it worth watching, but definitely not on the big screen.
Need Coffee
2.5
What *did* work for me was the decent direction, and the basic narrative.Theres something inherently compelling about the situation, even if the movie ..
Movie Martyr
2.5
The true fact is something much more intriguing, maybe even without peer in the recent years of Hollywood movie makinga film that exists entirely, for ..
Nicks Flick Picks
4.5
SDCC 2018 is in the books and Hal Rudnick was on the on the floor in San Diego checking out the best cosplay, exclusive sights, and more at Comic Con! ..
I Film
3.2
Great filmmaking requires that risks be taken.The bad news is that even if the gamble works, risk taking in itself does not guarantee a great film.
About Film
2.5
Hanks and Zemeckis begin with an intriguing premise...and, by the films end, smother that premise under a tidal wave of sentimentality and schmaltz.
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