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ReviewScore: 37 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Simon Birch will have to overcome an array of negative reviews if it is to make any sort of dent on the box office this weekend. Jack Mathews, writing for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, calls it "a dreadfully stick affair" in which writer-director Mark Steven Johnson "treats every scene as if it were a bonbon, almost too precious to consume." Stephen Holden in the New York Times uses a similar simile as he describes the film as being like "a piece of stale angel food cake. Bite into it, and what you'll find is a nearly flavorless mixture of air and sugar and more sugar and a texture so parched that a mouthful is almost impossible to swallow without risk of choking." Thelma Adams in the New York Post suggests that the movie contains a different ingredient: "More pure schmaltz than Sammy's Famous Romanian Restaurant on Chrystie Street." |
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