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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Fat Man and Little Boy is a fiction based on the Manhattan Project, but it is thin and unfocused and hardly even suggests the enormous moral and practical questions that the scientists wrestled with in the New Mexico desert. Read more
Hal Hinson, Washington Post: A singular, powerful experience. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: [Fat Man] is not resoundingly disastrous. That would imply a certain energy. Read more