| World Travelor | Variety, April 16, 2001 |
...impressive performances from Crudup, co-star Julianne Moore and the rest of the supporting
cast... [Cal] engages in a dalliance with a waitress (Karen Allen) |
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| New Yorker, April 29, 2002 |
[Cal] stops at a diner, and ends up in bed with a waitress (Karen Allen) | |
| Variety, September 24, 2001 |
Architect Cal (Crudup) picks up and leaves for no apparent reason, landing in a Pennsylvania town where a sympathetic waitress (Karen Allen) recommends him for a construction job. | |
| In The Bedroom | Variety, January 25, 2001 |
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| The Perfect Storm | Mothership | The wonderful Karen Allen, who's barely been seen onscreen since Raiders of the Lost Ark, is completely squandered as one of Bob Gunton's female crewmembers - she barely has a line of dialogue and her role could have essentially been played by a stuntwoman. |
| solon.com | Intercut with the story of the men on the Andrea Gail are several subplots, one involving Coast Guard rescuers, the other following the traumatic experiences of the crew of a small private boat (two of whom are played by the fine actresses Cherry Jones and Karen Allen, who unfortunately have little to do). | |
| IGN Movies | Both Michael Ironside and Karen Allen were vastly underutilized, yet still added much needed character ambiance to the whole piece. | |
| Mr. Showbiz | Petersen . . . pays cursory attention to a who-the-hell-are-they trio adrift in a sailboat (the estimable company of Bob Gunton, Cherry Jones, and Karen Allen). . . | |
| ReelViews | Karen Allen, Bob Gunton, and Christopher McDonald all have small, supporting roles. | |
| The New York Observer | It’s a movie about technology, not acting, although a game cast that includes Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John C. Reilly, William Fichtner, Cherry Jones and Karen Allen performs admirably in the close-ups. | |
| The Basket | movies.excite.com, May 2, 2000 |
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| Deseret News: Movie Review, May 5, 2000 |
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| San Francisco Chronicle: Film Clips, May 5, 2000 |
"Karen Allen, as the represssed wife of an idiot farmer, doesn't get to do much but look sad with those big eyes. She does it well, but it would be nice if she got to do more." -- Mick LaSalle | |
| San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 2000 |
"Karen Allen [is] a welcome presence who deserves a more complex role" -- Walter Addiego | |
| Newsday.com, May 6, 2000 |
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| All the Winters That Have Been | Mr Showbiz, September, 1997 |
Allen's Hannah is indeed a charmer, both as a youthful woman and twenty years later. -- Tony Scott |
| The Road Home | New York, March 7, 1994 |
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| USA Today, March 4, 1994 |
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| Entertainment Weekly, March 4, 1994 |
The most distractingly odd thing about Road is Allen's voice: With its Southern honey dip and unusually rough timbre, it sounds like she's doing an imitation of Blythe Danner. . . -- Ken Tucker | |
| Newsday, March 3, 1994 |
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| Ghost in the Machine | People, January 17, 1994 |
All of this is an excuse for some decent actors ([Karen] Allen, Chris Mulkey and Jessica Walter) to look perplexed and terrified. -- Leah Rozen |
| Variety, January 3, 1994 |
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| King of the Hill | People, September 6, 1993 |
If this film, the third by director Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies and videotape), did nothing other than rescue [Karen] Allen, [Lisa] Eichhorn and [Elizabeth] McGovern from Hollywood's pit of criminally under-used actresses, it would have been a noble enterprise. -- Ralph Novak |
| Vogue, September 1993 |
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| Entertainment Weekly, #184 August 20, 1993 |
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| Cosmopolitan, August 1993 |
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| The Sandlot | Tacoma News Tribune, December 29, 1994 (video release) |
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| TV Guide, October 23, 1993 (video release) |
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| People, April 19, 1993 |
Among the adults, Allen, that walking monument to bad career moves, is typically under-used as Guiry's concerned mother. | |
| Boston Globe, April 7, 1993 |
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| Premier, April 1993 |
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| Malcolm X | People, November 23, 1992 |
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| Sweet Talker | Tacoma News Tribune, December 29, 1994 (video release) |
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| Billboard, December 14, 1991 (video release) |
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| Playboy, July 1991 |
Allen and Brown are an unfailingly appealing duo. . . | |
| Secret Weapon | People, October 8, 1990 (video release) |
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| TV Guide, March 24, 1990 |
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| Challenger | People, February 26, 1990 |
McAuliffe [is] invested with a beguiling internal radiance by Karen Allen |
| Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1990 (#1) |
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| Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1990 (#2) |
McAuliffe [is] beautifully portrayed by Karen Allen | |
| TV Guide, February 3, 1990 |
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| Animal Behavior | People, November 13, 1989 |
Allen, who at 38 is a mite old to be playing a grad student, has the worst agent in the Western world, having parlayed one of the best roles in movie history (Raiders of the Lost Ark) into a zippo career. |
| Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1989 |
Allen and Assante are so terrific together you regret that Animal Behavior, goes for whimsy and sentimentality rather than the screwball humor and sophistication of Bringing Up Baby. . . It's not enough that Allen and Assante are such a pleasure. | |
| Backfire | People, June 19, 1989 |
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| Newsday, June 18, 1989 |
Both Fahey and Allen turn in fine performances as the antagonistic husband and wife | |
| Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1989 |
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| Scrooged | Screen It!, December 14, 1996 |
Karen Allen is pretty much wasted in her role. |
| Playboy, February 1989 |
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| Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert), November 23, 1988 |
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| People, November 28, 1988 |
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| The Glass Menagerie | The New Republic, November 23, 1987 |
Only Karen Allen, as the daughter, Laura, comes close to being satisfactory. Allen has summoned all the genteel fear of life that she could muster and uses it discreetly, sincerely. |
| Scholastic Update, November 20, 1987 |
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| New York Times, November 13, 1987 |
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| Starman | SQN, Inc, November 7, 1996 |
Affecting love story about growing romance between the lonely widow and the traveling anthropologist, mainly realized by Allen's terrific acting. |
| Philadelphia Inquirer, December 15, 1984 |
The performance is aided immensely by the strong support of Karen Allen. She keeps her emotions sharply drawn and is able to economically convey her rather complex relationship with the alien. | |
| Boston Globe, December 14, 1984 |
Karen Allen as the vulnerable, yet self-willed widow [infuses her role] with a dignity and dimension usually lacking in movies with a science-fiction base. | |
| Until September | Boston Globe, September 21, 1984 |
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| Shoot the Moon | Boston Globe, April 3, 1983 (video release) |
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| Boston Globe, February 19, 1982 |
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| Split Image | Boston Globe, October 1, 1982 |
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| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Leonard Maltin | |
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| Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1989 |
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| New York Times, June 1981 |
Miss Allen is endearingly resilient . . . with her Brooke Adams-Margot Kidder beauty . . . | |
| Variety, June 5, 1981 |
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| Boston Globe, June 12, 1981 |
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| Small Circle of Friends | Boston Globe, March 15, 1980 |