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Washington Post
Ryder's solid sense of character and even better sense of humor play paperweight to this flighty material.
Lewis's third marriage, to his 13-year-old second cousin Myra (Winona Ryder), smothered his career, a personal calamity that comes off here as camp comedy.
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Rolling Stone
Any which way you look at it, Great Balls of Fire stacks up as something small, shriveled and inexplicably tame, Goodness gracious indeed.
Ryder, now seventeen, lets us in on the confusion and conflicting emotions of this child bride without once playing down to the audience or patronizing the character; she is smashing.
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Chicago Sun-Times
This is a simpleminded rock 'n' roll history in which the pleasures are many and the troubles are few.
As played by Quaid (perhaps accurately), the Killer comes across as monstrous, egocentric, shallow, irresponsible, selfish and cold - and even his stage performances contain more anger than music.
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The New York Times
Otherwise, Quaid is terrific as Lewis (expertly lip-synching to the original records,) and Ryder is equally good as the long-suffering Myra. ... Full Review