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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Cast Away amounts to little more than an unprecedented showcase for its star. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: An exquisite film that gratifies our senses and our emotions. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: At its best, Cast Away, like Titanic, awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The scenes of Hanks' complete isolation on the island, where barely a sound is heard for minutes at a time, are the best thing about Cast Away. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A tour de force, a courageous and surprisingly un-self-indulgent exercise in pared-down acting that makes Hanks, yet again, a likely Oscar contender. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A handsomely made, instructive but finally tedious blow-by-blow training film on island survival that it throws the entire venture out of balance, capsizing the enterprise and making it difficult to keep any kind of message afloat. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Hanks and his collaborators deserve all the praise and awards that surely will come their way. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: In terms of story and pacing, the whole of Cast Away is a lot less then the sum of its parts. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Beautifully crafted. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Zemeckis tells his story ... with a control magnificent in what isn't shown as much as in what is. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Cast Away isn't the first to recognize our modern need for primal tales, but it is among the most accomplished. It plugs straight into our unplugged fantasies. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Hanks's Everyman quality has never been more aptly utilized: He's the perfect stand-in for all of us who never made it to Eagle Scout. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Has all the hallmarks of a great motion picture: well-developed characters, solid drama, non-traditional adventure, and an intelligent script. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Tom Hanks does a superb job of carrying Cast Away all by himself for about two-thirds of its running time, but isn't much helped by additional characters in the opening and closing sequences. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Cast Away is a sad movie of the sort that Hollywood almost never makes: not three-hankie sad, not 'go have yourself a good cry' sad, but the kind of thing that, if you let it in deep enough, can send a shudder to your very soul. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Zemeckis is a capable director, so despite the misguided concept, the movie is anything but inept. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Though Hanks comes across as blandly as ever, at least his solid performance shows he's up to carrying half a movie on his own, and Zemeckis' direction is at first as busily efficient as the protagonist. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Although Cast Away is very much Hanks's extreme everyman solo, his inanimate Man Friday deserves recognition as one of the year's best supporting actors. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter William Broyles Jr. do a great job of keeping the cut-and-dried formula from, well, getting too cut and dried. Read more