Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness.
– Michael Wilmington,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct 2011
fresh:
Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
26 Oct 2011
fresh:
Playing a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues.