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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 24 Feb 2007

This may get some in the audience to dream of doing more creative things with their free time than just going to the movies…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for www.susangranger.com (329) on 24 Feb 2007

This family-friendly fable lifts off with unabashedly sentimental inspiration. Talk about having The Right Stuff…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 24 Feb 2007

Challenges the status quo with a gentle but insistent nudge, celebrating personal freedom over the restraints of a big government that answers…

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By Boo Allen (301) for Denton Record-Chronicle (383) on 24 Feb 2007

Quirky for quirky's sake, making it absurd and insulting…

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By Kit Bowen (393) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 24 Feb 2007

Billy Bob Thornton finally sheds his Bad Santa-ness to play an everyday hero in the uplifting, if slightly cornball, family drama…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 24 Feb 2007

An exuberant movie about a dreamer whose passion and zeal lights up his life and unifies his family behind him…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 23 Feb 2007

Each shot is lovingly framed to show the golden light playing over the pastoral landscapes, set in a small town that makes Mayberry seem unfriendly…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 23 Feb 2007

To say that they don't make movies like this anymore -- splendidly, quietly angry in a folksy, old-fashioned kind of way -- is to prove its point…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 23 Feb 2007

The Polish brothers... never make the indie-filmmaker mistake of condescending to these characters or their small-town setting…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 23 Feb 2007

You either roll with the hokum or you don't…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 23 Feb 2007

A mysterious little movie about a man following his dream, The Astronaut Farmer seems to be a visitor from some alternative universe, a place…

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By Ruthe Stein (335) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Feb 2007

The Astronaut Farmer's goofy quality makes it totally endearing. It's also super entertaining…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 23 Feb 2007

This oddball has something beyond root-for-the-roots sentiments…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 23 Feb 2007

It's hard not to like a movie so determined to make you feel the love of a family, to make you feel that every dream can become a reality and…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 23 Feb 2007

[The filmmakers] subtle wit and feel for smalltown behavior gives AF a common-sensical veneer…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 23 Feb 2007

In the way it celebrates can-do spirit and the rugged individual and the power of dreams and all that, The Astronaut Farmer seems to be a nostalgia…

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By Kevin Carr (1,610) for 7M Pictures (1,037) on 23 Feb 2007

The cinematic equivalent of lasagna -- plot ground up with meat, characters that lay there like limp noodles and the whole thing slathered in cheese…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 23 Feb 2007

Look, there's Bruce Willis, an old astronaut buddy from Farmer's aeronautics-training days! No, Mission Control, this isn't Armageddon…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 23 Feb 2007

Rarely have I seen a movie which made me feel more skeptically Canadian. Please -- it's not true that you can do anything. Stop trying…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 23 Feb 2007

Though there is no lack of amusement in all this, the Polish brothers and the cast play it perfectly straight…

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