Fat Man and Little Boy 1989

Critics score:
53 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Fat Man and Little Boy is a fiction based on the Manhattan Project, but it is thin and unfocused and hardly even suggests the enormous moral and practical questions that the scientists wrestled with in the New Mexico desert. Read more

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Hal Hinson, Washington Post: A singular, powerful experience. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: [Fat Man] is not resoundingly disastrous. That would imply a certain energy. Read more