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A few times every year, Hollywood makes a mistake, violates formula and actually makes a great picture. Falling Down is one of the great mistakes of 1993, a film too good and too original to win any Oscars but one bound to be remembered in years to come as a true and ironic statement about life in our time. [26 Feb 1993, p.D1]Full Review

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

Falling Down is the most interesting, all-out commercial American film of the year to date, and one that will function much like a Rorschach test to expose the secrets of those who watch it.Full Review

Vincent Canby
The New York Times

Falling Down does a good job of representing a real feeling in our society today. It would be a shame if it is seen only on a superficial level.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Schumacher could have exploited those tabloid headlines about solid citizens going berserk. Instead, the timely, gripping Falling Down puts a human face on a cold statistic and then dares us to look away.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Douglas's intentionally robotic -- and intense -- performance holds its own. He's scary, normal and funny all at once.Full Review

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