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7
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6
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Critic Reviews
Apr 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This self-referential approach works only because the premise is so convincing and the characters are so real. When the mumbo-jumbo kicks in, we're willing to overlook holes in the plot as frighteningly big as the langoliers themselves because we can walk in the characters' shoes. [14 May 1995, p.1C]
Apr 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Well worth the wait is the 10-or-so-minute action payoff. It's nightmarish despite the obviously superimposed langoliers (created via digital visual effects) that recharge the final minutes of this miniseries, which isn't over when you think it is. [13 May 1995, p.15]
Apr 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Writer-director Tom Holland has pulled off the viewer-friendliest Stephen King vid adaptation since the Tobe Hooper-Paul Monash "Salem's Lot," at least for the first three hours. Pulling flesh-and-blood characters out of King's stick figures aboard an airplane zooming into a twilight zone, Holland has turned The Langoliers into a TV grabber.
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Apr 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Writer-director Tom Holland, whose films include "Child's Play" and "Fright Night," keeps the tension pulsing and pounding through most of the four-hour freakout. [12 May 1995, p.57]
Apr 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
With The Langoliers, there's a primal zing to the story. The cast also gets into the anxiety-fueled swing of things, especially Pinchot, Stockwell and the eerily enchanting Maberly. [12 May 1995, p.1C]
Apr 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This makes The Langoliers slow going in spots, but it’s also a lot more fun than most TV movies...Pinchot turns in a wonderfully delirious performance as a grown-up abused child driven to succeed as a banker by memories of his cruel daddy. And even though the langoliers are pretty obviously computer-animated special effects, these little meatballs are still pretty scary. I’d rather watch them than a Susan Lucci TV movie any day.
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