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01/01/00
Good Will Hunting (1997)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:57
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: Van Sant, working from Affleck and Damon's script, lends warmth and real emotion to the film's somewhat basic story.
Synopsis: A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations... [More]
Starring: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver
Director: Gus Van Sant
Reviews for Good Will Hunting
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01/01/00
Top CriticThere's nothing original in this picture, yet it's intensely likable just the same.
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12/08/02
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12/06/05
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04/12/02
Uno sale del cine y se da cuenta de por qué la película recibió tanta atención.
06/05/04
Almost any viewer will enjoy Good Will Hunting moment by moment, but many will wake the next morning wondering why, with all that talent on hand, it amounts to so little in the end.
01/01/00
Good Will Hunting may well be the Rocky story of the 90s.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe Damon-Affleck script is jammed with good ideas, strong dialogue and vigorous characters...
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Good Will Hunting is a confident film with great performances and an authentic look, sound and feel.
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04/21/04
Cynics may dismiss the film as an overly effusive festival of male-bonding, but for the rest of us, this is just the catharsis we need.
01/01/00
Towering performance by Matt Damon as a troubled working class who needs to address his creative genius elevates this drama way above its therapeutic approach, resulting in a zeitgeist film that may touch chord with young viewers the way The Graduate did
02/05/08
Top CriticThree soul friends help a troubled young man to find his place in the world.
03/01/02
Despite its coarse exterior, Good Will Hunting proves to be a rather positive and motivational experience.
05/09/07
Executed with such maximum grace, style and heartfelt emotional realism that it's almost enough to make the concept of an 'uplifting' movie not seem like such a big fat cheat any more.
01/01/00
Despite its schematic layout and predictable outcome, the ensemble acting is of such a high level -- particularly that of Robin Williams, Matt Damon and Stellan Skarsgard -- that the impact on his audience is spellbinding.
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... an engrossing, emotional roller coaster with peaks and valleys of perceptive wit, unsettling anger, coarse humor, and touching affection.
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