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The Paper
PG (SINGAPORE)
1994
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3.8
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4.4
Watching The Paper got me in touch all over again with how good it feels to work at the top of your form, on a story you believe in, on deadline.
Rogerebert
4.5
Thanks to a caffeinated cast and hyperactive script, director Ron Howard delivers The Paper with a bang.
4.5
As the story canters on toward its too schmaltzy outcome, Howards film starts smelling like the manure rich Mayberry R.F.D. Otherwise, theres little t ..
4.5
The giddy joy of the dialogue this is a word rich, witty film and the silly plot almost loses the point.
3.5
Entertaining, extremely informative, rapidly paced film that literally puts you on the front lines with the cast and crew who fabricate the news stori ..
JoBlo
4.5
The Paper succeeds in catching the high tension mixture of camaraderie, competition, and confusion that characterizes many workplaces.
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
A crowd pleaser, and, regardless of any viewers experience (or lack thereof) with the behind the scenes wrangling that goes on in newspaper offices, t ..
ReelViews
3.8
That Hanks delivers an atypically charmless performance doesnt help matters; while the actor certainly isnt bad in the role, he transforms Robert Lang ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.5
Does it show how newspapers really work Not really, but who cares It is great fun, even if it is overdone.
Lariat
4.4
The characterizations, the eccentricities, the feverish sense of pursuing a deadline story and an awful lot of other particulars that show just how de ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.4
I think the movie ultimately is not a comedy although it is extremely funny. This is a first rate drama.
Internet Reviews
3.0
Its a bit too busy and precocious for its own good, but still has enough of a charming throwback quality that I was willing to forgive many of its fla ..
Internet Reviews
3.5
A film that should be recommended as skillfully done example of almost forgotten dramatic subgenre.
Internet Reviews
3.2
An overwrought, hysterical drama about the newspaper business that doesnt begin to compare to Hollywoods classics of the genre (The Front Page). The f ..
Emanuellevy
4.5
Its a script steeped in delicious jargon: wood, slammer, wet break, perp walk, spaghetti shots (dont ask).
Flavor Wire
1.5
The picture starts to fall in love with its subject head over heels in love, until the acid drains from the wit and theres nothing left but sentimenta ..
Globe and Mail
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