Fat Man and Little Boy
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 20, 1989 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
11
Negative:
4
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie labors under an enormous handicap: A much better, more intelligent and more exciting film has already been made about this same subject. Read full review
30
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Fat Man and Little Boy is so confused, so stunningly ineffective, that General Groves's hawkish statements are more persuasive than the dove-ish apprehensions expressed by the scientists. Even the sight of a scientist dying horribly of radiation poisoning fails to be moving. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay Scott
Honorable, instructive, courageous: Fat Man and Little Boy, the true story of the creation of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, N.M., is admirable in every respect save one - it's a lousy movie. [20 Oct 1989]
30
The New YorkerPauline Kael
The director, Roland Joffe, and his co-screenwriter, Bruce Robinson, took this inherently dramatic subject and got lost in it; the script is a shambles.
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