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  Review by Tentin Quarantino ☭ ½ 58

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Move over, Triumph of the Will. We've got a fresh new load of propaganda!

  For a movie that acts almost like a travelogue for how awesome America is, don't you think it's odd that the story centers around your average American - some random, low-intelligence nobody?

  The theme of this movie is simple: Do as you're told.

  That's all Forrest does in the whole movie, and he ends up a famous millionaire entrepreneur war hero athlete and pop culture icon.

  Jenny, on the other hand, does the exact opposite, questions the status-quo at every turn, stands up for what she believes in all throughout the movie...and ends up a depressed abuse victim with two broken homes and AIDS.

  Subtle.

  Yeah,…

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  Review by shay ★★★★★ 10

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  when he finally saw forrest jr. and he was like "is he smart?" i was like oh great now i gotta get up and get the tissues to wipe these ugly tears away

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★ 35

  This is like, some kind of weird, conservative fantasy. If watching this served any good purpose, it's a possibly vital reminder that the Clinton era was not as progressive as many of us might like to remember - the latter half of the 20th century in America through the eyes of a reactionary, nearly 50 years of social tumult regarded as just a brief phase of unrest before everything returns to 'normal,' - the Vietnam War, Black Panthers, and social justice activists regarded as a big joke, Jenny's character is subtly demonised - every decision she makes is the 'wrong' one, she doesn't find happiness until she bends to Forrest's will - Forrest is always 'right' - even though he does nothing but observe.

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  Review by Nicole Kubrick 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ★★★★½ 14

  “Nothing good comes from going online. You get online and see they hated Forrest Gump. Freakin’ best movie ever.”
  - Ray Romano, The Big Sick

  Welcome to Film Twitter, Mr. Romano.

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  Review by COBRARocky ★ 45

  I didn't realize why people hate this film until it clicked with me that this is what Boomers honestly believe about their lives and history. No alternative outcomes, no possible way that things could have been better. Just a complete surrender to cynicism. Of course it won Oscars.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★½ 52

  Poor Jenny deserved better

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★★½ 4

  what's up guys i'm fucking crying

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  Review by Fritz Lewis ★★★★½ 19

  "ALONG THE WATCHTOWER"
  "Hound Dog"
  "Rebel Rouser"
  "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"
  "Walk Right In"
  "Land of 1000 Dances"
  "Blowin' in the Wind"
  "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
  "Respect"
  "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35"
  "Sloop John B"
  "California Dreamin"
  "For What It's Worth"
  "What The World Needs Now"
  "Break on Through (To The Other Side)"
  "Mrs. Robinson"
  "Volunteers"
  "Get Together"
  "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)"
  "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)"
  "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In"
  "Everybody's Talkin At Me"
  "Joy To The World"
  "Stoned Love"
  "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
  "Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man)"
  "Sweet Home Alabama"
  "It Keeps You Runnin"…

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  Review by Roberto_ ★★★ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  forrest gump: football star, war hero, national celebrity, shrimpin' boat captain, college graduate, husband, father

  me: a failure

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  Review by SARAH🦕 ★★★★★ 6

  No you know what i AM gonna review Forrest Gump. I think the ~letterboxd~ criticisms are valid but when Forrest sees his son and starts crying and says “Is he smart?” or when he says “I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is” or “I GOTTA FIND BUBBA” and when lieutenant Dan does that backstroke in the sunset or when he says “maybe it’s both” or when he teaches Elvis to dance or when Dan shows up to his wedding or when the lady at the bus stop likes his story or when he runs from ocean to ocean or when

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  Review by alor ★★★★½ 10

  A movie about a man who runs and enjoys cutting grass.

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★½ 10

  I have no idea how to rate or evaluate this movie. It is incredibly strange, with acidic, cynical takes on American history back-to-back with the most saccharine nonsense you’ll ever see. The movie was received and is understood as a Boomer nostalgia play, but could be easily read as a satire and critique of America in the turbulent years of the 60s and 70s. 

  I’ll say this: The most interesting thing about GUMP is that it landed in an America absolutely ready to embrace the most face-value reading of this movie. Which is to say, an America still high off of its perceived triumph against the Soviet Union, an America where the Baby Boomer generation had finally ascended to the…