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"...A cute, buoyant sports fantasy, jolted along by a reggae soundtrack and playfully acted by an appealing cast..." New York Times "...Heartwarming..." Sight and Sound "...Highly entertaining....The offbeat, fact-based saga is enlivened by the perfect balance of humor, emotion and insight..." Variety33.07953
$7.84
33.07953
$20.77
23.7439
$36.51
"...Good company....[A] gentle tale of friendship..." New York Times "...Very smoothly directed with an eye to fresh humor....A breezy amiable comedy..." Variety23.62824
$11.94
"...Good company....[A] gentle tale of friendship..."New York Times "...Very smoothly directed with an eye to fresh humor....A breezy amiable comedy..."Variety23.62824
$8.54
"...An effective nightmarish comedy....Steve Martin and John Candy repeatedly recall a contemporary Laurel & Hardy..." Variety "...There is no denying the craft of either Martin or Candy..."Los Angeles Times "...It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally..." Chicago Sun-Times19.47409
$15.06
"...It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally..."Chicago Sun-Times "...An effective nightmarish comedy....Steve Martin and John Candy repeatedly recall a contemporary Laurel & Hardy..."Variety "...There is no denying the craft of either Martin or Candy..."Los Angeles Times19.47409
$12.03
"...It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally..."Chicago Sun-Times "...An effective nightmarish comedy....Steve Martin and John Candy repeatedly recall a contemporary Laurel & Hardy..."Variety "...There is no denying the craft of either Martin or Candy..."Los Angeles Times19.47409
$15.92
"...It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally..."Chicago Sun-Times "...An effective nightmarish comedy....Steve Martin and John Candy repeatedly recall a contemporary Laurel & Hardy..."Variety "...There is no denying the craft of either Martin or Candy..."Los Angeles Times19.47409
$22.37
"...It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally..."Chicago Sun-Times "...An effective nightmarish comedy....Steve Martin and John Candy repeatedly recall a contemporary Laurel & Hardy..."Variety "...There is no denying the craft of either Martin or Candy..."Los Angeles Times19.47409
$6.19
"...It is perfectly cast and soundly constructed, and all else flows naturally..."Chicago Sun-Times "...An effective nightmarish comedy....Steve Martin and John Candy repeatedly recall a contemporary Laurel & Hardy..."Variety "...There is no denying the craft of either Martin or Candy..."Los Angeles Times19.47409
$10.83
19.13391
$17.95
19.09536
$5.73
"...Amusing..."Variety19.0568
$6.27
19.03753
$38.88
19.03753
$12.86
19.03753
$11.96
19.03753
$28.30
19.03753
$12.95
19.03753
$5.54
19.03753
$39.92
19.03753
$11.43
"[D]aring, subtle, and stingingly on target." Film Comment "[T]he show featured both great comedic actors and classic characters." Entertainment Weekly "[C]rack open the Molson, get the back bacon frying and feast on one of the funniest shows ever." Rolling Stone19.01825
$48.75
"...Uncle Buck is a breath of fresh air....The cast is good...[but it's Candy who] gives the film what heft it has..." New York Times "...Culkin's wide-eyed takes...are almost as funny as Candy's delicious slow burns..." Entertainment Weekly "...[Hughes] can be surprisingly daring in introducing bits and pieces of tense domestic turmoil into his comedies, and this one is no exception..."Los Angeles Times19.01825
$6.74
"...Culkin's wide-eyed takes...are almost as funny as Candy's delicious slow burns..."Entertainment Weekly "...[Hughes] can be surprisingly daring in introducing bits and pieces of tense domestic turmoil into his comedies, and this one is no exception..."Los Angeles Times "...Uncle Buck is a breath of fresh air....The cast is good...[but it's Candy who] gives the film what heft it has..."New York Times19.01825
$11.15
"...Culkin's wide-eyed takes...are almost as funny as Candy's delicious slow burns..."Entertainment Weekly "...[Hughes] can be surprisingly daring in introducing bits and pieces of tense domestic turmoil into his comedies, and this one is no exception..."Los Angeles Times "...Uncle Buck is a breath of fresh air....The cast is good...[but it's Candy who] gives the film what heft it has..."New York Times19.01825
$10.56
18.9797
$9.12
"...Candy is irresistible..." Variety18.90259
$10.42
"...Ryan is likeable....Levy is endearing....[Lester] recalls the inspired lunacy of SCTV..." Variety18.90259
$8.01
"...Ryan is likeable....Levy is endearing....[Lester] recalls the inspired lunacy of SCTV..."Variety18.90259
$16.44
"...The inverted logic of the story is deliciously pessimistic....A fertile premise and the story is lightly peppered with effective gags..." Sight and Sound16.73253
$9.38
16.69398
$6.19
"...Foolery pulled off with a wink and a flourish....Good character bits abound..." Variety "...Pleasantly silly....[The writers] have come up with a gallery of deliciously skewered private-eye stereotypes..." Los Angeles Times16.6747
$7.63
"...An ambitious sendup....Gentle, harmless satire than occasionally has real bite..." New York Times "...Amusing sight gags..." Variety "...Often underrated is this comedy's dead-on production design..." USA Today "[T]he meta-merchandising send-ups are inspired chuckles that get funnier with age." Premiere "The spoofs on marketing tie-ins and insecure tyrants have grown even more relevant..." Entertainment Weekly16.65543
$9.19
"...An ambitious sendup....Gentle, harmless satire than occasionally has real bite..."New York Times "...Amusing sight gags..."Variety "...Often underrated is this comedy's dead-on production design..."USA Today "[T]he meta-merchandising send-ups are inspired chuckles that get funnier with age."Premiere 3 stars out of 5 -- "Painfully punny and overcooked to perfection....It's the gloriously loony ALIEN send-up with John Hurt that's the biggest gut-buster."Total Film "The spoofs on marketing tie-ins and insecure tyrants have grown even more relevant..."Entertainment Weekly16.65543
$12.46
16.53977
$9.22
16.53977
$8.18
"...Funny....[Hanks is] stylishly droll..." New York Times16.53977
$5.91
14.31188
$30.70
"...[Candy] radiates comic sweetness, gentleness and affability....[O'Hara] makes a genuinely spectacular comeback..."Los Angeles Times "...[Candy] gives an honestly touching performance....Simple charms..."New York Times "...Candy is so sincere here that it is obvious he's taken John Hughes' latest production to heart..." USA Today14.17694
$8.70
0.3084299
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0.2698761
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0.2313224
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE QUICKENING comprises eight delightful lattices of wordless, pan-global mood music with sundry flute, saxes, glockenspiel and xylophones amping the lysergic classroom vibe."0.2313224
$18.65
0.1927687
$10.50
0.1156612
$8.64
"...Fast, funny satire....Chase plays Clark Griswold with much more of an edge than he's brought to any other recent roles..." New York Times "...An enjoyable trip through family comedy landscapes....There's plenty of fun here for anybody who can relate from the front or back seat..." Variety "...Very funny....Chase, as Clark Griswold, finally lived up to all that early SNL promise..." Entertainment Weekly0.1156612
$15.64
