Biloxi Blues 1988

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times: Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm. Read more

Vincent Canby, New York Times: With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie Mike Nichols has directed from the play is pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable, and tells us less about the characters than we already know. Read more

Time Out: Suffice it to say it is suicidally against the grain. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Playing a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues. Read more