Grand Canyon (1991) Critic Reviews

In a time when our cities are wounded, movies like Grand Canyon can help to heal.Read the full review

Grand Canyon is most gripping when Kasdan shows people waking up to the world and finding that they need more than bromides.Read the full review

The graceful and affecting Grand Canyon, with its flock of fortysomethings, is much more than just "The Bigger Chill."Read the full review

Too often the film languishes as Mr. Kasdan poses Big Questions and then has his characters answer them in conversations that are so casual they seem improvised. [26 Dec 1991]Read the full review

[Grand Canyon] eventually pulls its punches, taking an unconvincingly beatific look at the problems and dangers that have been so persuasively outlined in what has come before. But until it hits that false note, Mr. Kasdan's film is at least as fascinating as it is amorphous.Read the full review

A superbly heartfelt drama for six diverse actors, it is as colorfully striated as its majestic namesake - and almost as wide. The film's depth is another matter altogether.Read the full review

As sanctimonious as it is sincere, this is a well-meaning picture that is seriously stuck on itself, that can't hide its air of self-satisfaction. [25 Dec 1991]Read the full review

[An] earnest, often moving but not totally successful film.Read the full review