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Grand Canyon Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    64

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    In a time when our cities are wounded, movies like Grand Canyon can help to heal.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    Canyon is similarly slick, though even more heavy-handed in hammering home its points. [26 Dec 1991]

  • 60

    out of 100

    The New York Times Janet Maslin

    [Grand Canyon] eventually pulls its punches, taking an unconvincingly beatific look at the problems and dangers that have been so persuasively outlined in what has come before. But until it hits that false note, Mr. Kasdan's film is at least as fascinating as it is amorphous.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Variety

    [An] earnest, often moving but not totally successful film.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    As sanctimonious as it is sincere, this is a well-meaning picture that is seriously stuck on itself, that can't hide its air of self-satisfaction. [25 Dec 1991]

  • 70

    out of 100

    Time Richard Schickel

    If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best qualities - generosity, common sense and a mature decency that is neither smug nor sentimental.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Julie Salamon

    Too often the film languishes as Mr. Kasdan poses Big Questions and then has his characters answer them in conversations that are so casual they seem improvised. [26 Dec 1991]

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