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| WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (1998) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 45 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Reviews for What Dreams May Come may produce both delightful fantasies and grim nightmares for the filmmakers today. Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times calls the film "cloying and simplistically sentimental" and faults star Robin Williams for a "lachrymose performance." Harsher still is Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post who writes, "The film is overproduced and underpopulated, with either characters or ideas." Rod Dreher in the New York Post puts it this way: "[It's] like dropping acid in a Hallmark shop. It's a psychedelic knockout to look at, but everything else about this life-after-death weeper is so mind-blowingly insipid, you want to jump out a 12-story window." Stephen Holden in the New York Times complains that the screenplay is "clotted with slogans, riddles and dime-store psychobabble." However, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times, while conceding that in the end, the film "fails to deliver," adds, "This is a film that even in its imperfect form shows how movies can imagine the unknown, can lead our imaginations into wonderful places." And Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News calls it "a visual feast of a movie that takes you on a provocative trip through heaven and hell ... often as emotionally moving as it is eye-popping." So moved was Eleanor Ringel of the Atlanta Journal-Consitution that while writing her review, "I now find myself choking up at the mere memory of certain scenes." And Jay Carr in the Boston Globe concludes that What Dreams May Come "is a dazzling achievement." |
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