Robert Zemeckis (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Robert Zemeckis

Looking for reviews of films directed by Robert Zemeckis? Cinafilm has a total of 12,970 reviews across 22 movies directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 67%.

Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 912 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Robert Zemeckis is Pinocchio, with a score of 43% based on 103 reviews.

Director Biography

Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy Award-winning live-action/animation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.

His films are characterized by an interest in state-of-the-art special effects, including the early use of match moving in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the pioneering performance capture techniques seen in The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009). Though Zemeckis has often been pigeonholed as a director interested only in effects, his work has been defended by several critics, including David Thomson, who wrote that "No other contemporary director has used special effects to more dramatic and narrative purpose.

Robert Zemeckis has directed films starring Tom Hanks, Marc McClure, Christopher Lloyd and Wendie Jo Sperber.