San Francisco Chronicle has a neat article they did in collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes. "Christopher Walken's best-reviewed movies" ranks Walken's movies by their critical response.
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Walkin was awesome in the Dead Zone! In fact, I'm surprised Dead Zone didn't come in higher on the list. Ranking at 89%, the Chronicle The Dead Zone calls the 1983 movie "arguably the best Stephen King adaptation."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/25/MVO01IHB5M.DTL
It's kind of a cheat, that list, because the ranking is *not* based on Walken's performance in said film, but on that film's overall critical reception. DEAD ZONE however certainly gets the highest rating of films in which he is actually the *lead actor*, an important distinction. He's in ANNIE HALL and PULP FICTION for barely 10 minutes each.
ReplyDeleteHummm, I hadn't thought of that! You're absolutely right. But he really carries Dead Zone.
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