Shadowlands Reviews

Biting down on his pipe, his shirt collar permanently askew, Hopkins assays another concerted study in English repression -- a condition unexpectedly relieved by Winger's brash intelligence and brittle wit.

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Superlative acting by Hopkins and Winger elevates this fictionalized late-in-life romance between the repressed British scholar and writer C.S. Lewis and the American Jewish housewife-poet who introduces him to sex and rejuvenates his life.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This is the biggest tear-jerker you could ever see.

| Original Score: 4/5

Really Touching stuff. Performances get no better

| Original Score: 3/5

Here is Mr. Hopkins giving an amazingly versatile and moving performance, shifting the light in those knowing blue eyes to reveal endless shadings between delight and sorrow.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Glossy and effective, but not as good as the Joss Ackland version.

| Original Score: 4/5

Anthony Hopkins gives one of his best performances (there are so many) in this film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A deeply personal and moving love story filled with many moments of beauty, joy and healing.

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A great weepy for people of all sexes

| Original Score: 5/5

Debra Winger is engaging and Anthony Hopkins is bloody marvelous.

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It understands that not everyone falls into love through the avenue of physical desire; that for some, the lust may be for another's mind, for inner beauty.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Shadowlands is illuminated from beginning to end by Hopkins. This may be the best thing he's ever done.

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A high-class tear-jerker about the romance of repressed British writer C.S. Lewis with feisty American poet Joy Gresham.

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There are so many things special about this movie it is hard to know where to begin...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Richard Attenborough tackles yet another "true story" and this time comes away with something quite a bit more substantial than Robert Downey, Jr. in greasepaint.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

One of the most underrated tear-jerking melodramas of its time.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

If Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger aren't careful, they're likely to knock themselves out of contention for Academy Award nominations by doing too much excellent work in one year.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Anthony Hopkins just gets better and better as a film actor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Sit back, watch a master at work, and never once believe that you're not observing the real C.S. Lewis.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Full Review | Original Score: A-