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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesThough ''Roxy Carmichael'' is never as fresh or powerful as it might have been, it is a sweetly engaging film in the Barry Levinson school: just when you think it might fall into a bottomless pit of sentimentality, it stops short.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyNicholas FonsecaEntertainment WeeklyNicholas FonsecaAn offbeat pic pointlessly oversaturated with grating characters who look like they got lost on their way to a John Waters fan club convention.
- 60Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonWhere the movie sabotages her, though, is by insisting that all she really wants is to be like everyone else.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie sinks into contrived plot manipulation.
- 50Time OutTime OutThere are a few piquant ironies at work, but the selling point is Ryder, again doing her coming-of-age turn for the camera, with a performance that wavers between gangling fragility and a tough-girl Matt Dillonism. Otherwise, the movie falls flat, because of its leaden pacing, and because deep down it believes in the moral imperative of having perfect hair and teeth.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWELCOME HOME ROXY CARMICHAEL is less a movie than it is an example of what the studios refer to as "product," the kind of toothless comedy that features big stars in frenetic and forgettable farces.
- 38The Associated PressThe Associated PressThe wrong version of Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael must have been released, because this sloppy-looking film never should have been allowed into theaters. [11 Oct 1990]