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Pay it Forward (2000) Movie Reviews
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iofilm.co.uk
There is a wasted strangeness about Pay It Forward, with performances from the lead actors that make the hairs stand up.
Rather than repeat a Marty-style love story between people too emotionally insecure to maintain a relationship, the writers add...read the complete Pay it Forward (2000) review at iofilm.co.uk
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
Another gutsy, big-budget movie that dares to say something new and optimistic about our messed-up times. And it almost, but not quite, brings it off....read the complete Pay it Forward (2000) review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
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Film.com (Robert Horton)
Spacey and company deserve better....read the complete Pay it Forward (2000) review at Film.com (Robert Horton)
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Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
The truth is that this programmatic Christian parable is pretty unbearable--glib, often myopic, and reeking with sentimentality and self-pity....read the complete Pay it Forward (2000) review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
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Village Voice (Dennis Lim)
An overflowing septic tank of chicken-soupy sanctimony that proceeds from casually offensive hypocrisy to wretchedly inapt religiosity....read the complete Pay it Forward (2000) review at Village Voice (Dennis Lim)
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