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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
A perfect vehicle for Robin Williams. He again plays the compassionate, manic clown that has been his main character throughout his movie career. And audiences love his wild end runs.
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50
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The movie starts with insights about the need for more humane values in health care, then buries them under an avalanche of frivolities, vulgarities, and clichés.
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50
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San Francisco Examiner
Could have been maudlin from start to finish. Instead, more than half the 154-minute film is riveting - filled with funny, touching bits that don't stoop to cheap sentimentality.
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40
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Low humor might count for more here if it weren't constantly overshadowed by the film's maudlin streak.
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40
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Los Angeles Times
Williams knows when material is working, and he knows the sound of an honestly aroused crowd. This ain't it!
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38
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. This movie is shameless. It's not merely a tearjerker. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia.
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30
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
If laughter is the best medicine, Patch Adams is but a sugary, fitfully amusing placebo.
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25
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New York Daily News
Patch Adams is either a brilliantly sly, straight-faced parody of the standard Robin Williams tearjerker or the soggiest movie of the season. [24 December 1998, p. 29]
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0
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Oooh, this is toxic.
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0
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
There should be a special room in Hell where the makers of films like Patch Adams are sent.
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