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Washington Post
The Mosquito Coast is the only movie you'll see this season that has too much ambition for its own good - its subject, really, is nothing less than the American experience. Full Review
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
What keeps The Mosquito Coast from being a great movie is too much caution. Full Review
Julie Salamon
Wall Street Journal
The picture's blandness - and hollowness - is startling when you consider the collaborators. [26 Nov 1986] Full Review
Paul Attanasio
Washington Post
The Mosquito Coast is the only movie you'll see this season that has too much ambition for its own good - its subject, really, is nothing less than the American experience. Full Review
Richard Schickel
Time
The problem is that the high-pitched whine of Allie's character finally vitiates not merely the viewer's sympathy for him, but sympathy for the movie he dominates, despite the care and courage that went into its making. Full Review
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