Flesh and Bone
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 5, 1993 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
6
Negative:
2
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60
Washington PostRita Kempley
Kloves has taken us on one more ride down this same old Texas highway, with its cheap motels and gloomy cowboys. Ain't much more to it than that. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The past traps the present, fate smothers spontaneity, and all of the dialog sounds like Dialog - not what people would say, but what characters would say. The film is depressing for some of the right reasons, and all of the wrong ones. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
If you go to this, anticipate neither an endearing Quaid-Ryan vehicle nor a fully satisfying art film. By trying to satisfy opposing demands, Kloves misses the spirit of both and is left only with flesh and bone. Read full review
50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The performances are sound, but for much of the time the film seems undecided whether it's a mystery, a romance, a social document or an art movie. And that indecision is fatal, stifling the life out of what might have been an effective little thriller. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
This film turns out to revolve around a whole series of whopper coincidences, even one of which would be difficult to swallow. Not even a film this accomplished can work up enough suspension of disbelief to enable audiences to ingest them all, and just making the attempt is painful. [05 Nov 1993, p.F1]
40
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Thematically, structurally, narratively (hell, pick your adverb), this effort goes way past thin - Flesh And Bone is anorexic. [05 Nov 1993]
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