Positive reviews from Rotten Tomatoes:
It's been awhile since we've had a movie that offered so much and generally managed to deliver on all counts.
This film is both serious and funny, entertaining and thought-provoking and it could make people laugh and cry with equal degree of ease.
The good-natured humor is wonderful in the film, but the thing that makes it so entertaining is how it hits all the human emotions dead-center without resorting to cheap melodrama.
Unashamedly sentimental, this is a technically triumphant tear-jerker.
A picaresque story of a simpleton's charmed odyssey through 30 years of tumultuous American history, Forrest Gump is whimsy with a strong cultural spine.
There's only one word to truly describe Forrest Gump: magical.
Clever, sweet and frequently very funny. I think it's a darn good movie.
Skillfully adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth, the story belongs in the company of such sweet classics as Rain Man and Harvey.
Hanks is superb, reemploying the childlike presence he brought to Big.
Forrest Gump has an intricacy and depth that is more rewarding while still being enormously engaging.
An enchanting and creative parable about a contemporary holy fool whose brand of selflessness is free of reason's madness and the ego's frivolous grandeur.
A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
It could be said that Forrest Gump is the definitive American movie.
Negative Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes:
For all its ambition, the movie ends up using great historical events in the service of a dubious sentimentality.
The wearisome Forrest Gump won six Oscars.
It sure seemed great at the time, but Gump is aging, and not very well.
A vile, irresponsible film whose massive success says some very frightening things about America.
Stupid is as stupid does, and this movie is, indeed, stupid.
Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
Gets my vote for the most offensive, morally repugnant film ever made.
Forrest Gump has the elements of an emotionally gripping story. Yet it feels less like a romance than like a coffee-table book celebrating the magic of special effects.
As this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: ignorance is bliss.
Critic Reviews from MetaCritic:
Chicago Sun Times, Roger Ebert, 100: What a magical movie.
Chicago Tribune, Michael Wilmington, 100: Clean up the language, and this little roach of a movie could play the bottom half of a double bill with Rowan and Martin's “The Maltese Bippy.”
ReelViews, James Berardinelli, 100: Passionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary of spirit.
Rolling Stone, Peter Travers, 90: A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
Film.com, John Hartl, 90: This is an ambitious movie that attempts too much rather than too little.
Variety, Todd McCarthy, 90: Manages the difficult feat of being an intimate, even delicate tale played with an appealingly light touch against an epic backdrop.
Washington Post, Rita Kempley, 90: Zemeckis, an undisputed master of film technology, shows off an equal aptitude for vivid storytelling.
Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum, 90: The results are skillful, highly affecting, and ultimately more than a little pernicious.
Austin Chronicle, Robert Faires, 89: A remarkable balance of sentimentality and harshness, darkness and light.
USA Today, Mike Clark, 88: Doesn't sound like a very prepossessing title, but prepare to be taken aback by "what's in a name."
Mr. Showbiz, Joseph McBride, 80: The film's technical brilliance and sentimental kick seduced many viewers unsuspecting of its polemical intent.
Time, Richard Corliss, 80: It's a long drink of water at the fountain of pop-social memory.
Washington Post, Desson Thomson, 80: This is a captivating experience.
San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Guthmann, 75: At its best, Forrest Gump is a gentle, elegiac fantasy about love and trust.
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