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The Dead Zone

1983

David Cronenberg

Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt ...

6.6

11,440

Mystery. Sci-Fi Adapted from a Stephen King novel, it stars Christopher Walken as Johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to realize that he can tell a person's fate just by touching them. Realizing that he can change the future as well, Johnny soon gets intervenes in a number of would-be tragedies. Consequently, he soon becomes famous for his gift, but he longs for his former life, when he still had his job, his fiancee, and a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It tells its story so strongly through the lives of sympathetic, believable people that we not only forgive the gimmicks, we accept them (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Cronenberg's direction is vivid and effective; his pacing is a little unemphatic at times, but the film's individual scenes are very well staged."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"By no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one (...) [Cronenberg] has become much more polished as a storyteller, but at considerable cost to his art"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager AV Club	"Cronenberg’s icy directorial detachment lends 'The Dead Zone' a haunting creepiness, greatly amplified by Walken"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"[It] manages a lot of powerful material (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety	"An accomplished psychological thriller (...) Convincingly played by Christopher Walken"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"It's well crafted and atmospheric, with an arresting central character (Walken in one of his most sympathetic and controlled performances), but the episodic plot strands don't really mesh."	NEU
Canada	Michele "Izzy" Galgana Screen Anarchy	"Devastating, prophetic (...) One of the most satisfying, cathartic aspects of 'The Dead Zone' is that people get what they deserve (...) From cast to crew, it's one of the most perfect films that come to mind"	POS

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