The Outsider
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 2, 1980 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
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Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

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75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
One of the better films concerning the tensions in Northern Ireland, THE OUTSIDER stars Craig Wasson as a young Irish-American inspired by his grandfather's patriotic tales of fighting the British years ago. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
The Outsider is vivid even if it isn't much of a character study, and energetic even though it's often clumsy. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The Outsider represents the first attempt to get behind the incessant headlines and into the minds and motives at work on one of the longest-fought terrorist campaigns of the times - through an intelligent fictional story with an Irish setting. Read full review
50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
More confusing than illuminating, it's a film which will rely more on its reputation than its achievement. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeStaff (Not Credited)
The "troubles" in Northern Ireland would seem to be an excellent dramatic vehicle: tension, violence, a people torn apart by religious, political, and economic differences. But writer-director Tony Luraschi turns it into a polemic. Speeches replace action and the dialogue is wooden. [14 Feb 2014, p.G31]
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