Mrs. Doubtfire 1993

Janet Maslin, New York Times: The dress, the mask and Mrs. Doubtfire's gentility are inherently limiting, but nothing holds Mr. Williams back when he's on a roll. Read more

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David Ansen, Newsweek: I've rarely laughed so much at a movie I generally disliked. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: In terms of plot, the film is rather feeble, but sometimes there's more to a movie than story, and this is one of those rare occasions when all the other elements pull together and lift the production. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film is not as amusing as the premise, and there were long stretches when I'd had quite enough of Mrs. Doubtfire. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Sit-com stuff, then, with laboured farcical interludes, and a mushy post-feminist sensibility. Funny notwithstanding. Read more

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Brian Lowry, Variety: Although overly sappy in places and probably 20 minutes too long, this Robin Williams-in-drag vehicle provides the comic a slick surface for doing his shtick, within a story possessing broad family appeal. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Williams has to break out of a second-rate "Tootsie" imitation, ankles clamped in pathos and face covered in latex. He pulls it off in the end, but it's not pretty. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: You will laugh till your ribs ache -- not because director Chris Columbus of the "Home Alone" movies has a gift for farce, which he does, but because Williams is to funny what the Energizer Bunny is to batteries. He keeps going and going and going. Read more