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Bicentennial Man (1999)

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Reviews Counted:93

Fresh:35

Rotten:58

Average Rating:4.8/10

Consensus: Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.

Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. The Martin family quickly... [More]

Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson

Director: Chris Columbus

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Reviews for Bicentennial Man

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Tomatometer	Critic	Review	Category
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 24 2006 03:22 AM	Time Out
	Mike Higgins	The film swiftly settles into an unevenly paced, episodic structure, unsure whether it's a family saga, a sci-fi drama or a children's comedy. Full Review \| Comment \| Dec., 02 2002 08:08 AM	Sight and Sound
1/5	Ben Falk	The worst kind of movie -- one with no direction, no identity, and above all no heart. Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 17 2001 04:54 PM	BBC
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM	Empire Magazine
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM	Empire Magazine
8/10	Ian Waldron-Mantgani	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM	UK Critic
N/R	P. Ignatieff	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Sep., 08 2009 03:15 AM	Hollywood.com
3/5		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Dec., 06 2005 07:34 PM	Film Threat
N/R	Robin Clifford	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 09 2005 03:27 AM	Reeling Reviews
C	Philip Martin	...aspires to an almost adult level of seriousness. Full Review \| Comment \| Jan., 02 2005 03:35 PM	Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
2/4	Jeffrey M. Anderson	Bicentennial Man is sometimes sweet, but it's also a phenomenal waste of talent, and a continuation of a Williams' trip down the wrong road. Full Review \| Comment \| Oct., 23 2003 05:45 PM	Combustible Celluloid
1.5/4	Leonard Schwarz	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| May., 20 2003 05:06 PM	Palo Alto Weekly
4/5	John R. McEwen	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Feb., 08 2003 08:09 AM	Film Quips Online
3/5		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Dec., 08 2002 08:11 AM	Film Threat
	Jeff Strickler	Columbus lays on the sentimentality thickly, sometimes letting it get in the way of the storytelling. The longer the movie continues, the more overt he becomes in his emotional pandering. Full Review \| Comment \| Nov., 06 2002 02:54 PM	Minneapolis Star Tribune
2/4	Margaret A. McGurk	Virtually every emotion, motivation, idea, character and plot point in the movie is flat and perfunctory -- except for those that carry the invisible subtitle, 'Cry, dammit!' Full Review \| Comment \| Oct., 15 2002 08:08 AM	Cincinnati Enquirer
C-	Eric D. Snider	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Sep., 18 2002 08:07 AM	EricDSnider.com
2/5	Mike Kerrigan	You long for [Williams] to break the metal mold, if only for a minute, to remind you that you are watching the best improvisational comedian of this millennium. Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 05 2002 08:07 AM	Boxoffice Magazine
B	William Arnold	Becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s. Full Review \| 1 Comment \| Apr., 03 2002 08:07 AM	Seattle Post-Intelligencer
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Mar., 24 2002 08:06 AM	Boston Phoenix

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