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Iris (2001)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:28
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A solidly constructed drama, Iris is greatly elevated by the strength of its four lead performances.
Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $5,372,026
Synopsis: Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back... [More]
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Richard Eyre
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Reviews for Iris
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03/31/08
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08/09/02
Top CriticThe impoverished story keeps Iris from achieving greatness, but no qualifiers are needed for the acting.
02/26/02
Top CriticFor a movie whose subject is the decline and fall of a towering intellect, there's precious little to think about here.
02/23/02
Top CriticThere are not two, but four sterling performances here.
02/15/02
Top CriticNot just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema.
02/15/02
Top CriticThe performances are the raison d'etre...
02/15/02
Top CriticBecause the performances are so powerful, one nearly forgets that in its vaulting between the '50s and '90s, Iris is a story with a beginning and end but without a middle.
02/15/02
Top CriticThose who have had a loved one fall prey to the mental ravages of Alzheimer's will see in Iris a depiction that is so lucid and accurate that it may be painful to observe.
02/15/02
Top CriticAs the story of heroic response to tragic illness, Iris is the kind of film often cynically pegged a 'disease of the week' movie. But unlike such formulaic TV productions, Iris' heroine is denied the capacity to be inspiring.
02/15/02
Top CriticTune out the hype for countless other movies. This is the one to see.
02/15/02
Top CriticThe performances in Iris -- by Judi Dench as the older Murdoch and Jim Broadbent as her husband, John Bayley, and by Kate Winslet as the younger Murdoch -- are so good that the film is completely compelling.
02/15/02
Top Critic...the results are tender, unflinching, raw and wonderful.
02/15/02
Top CriticBecause the film is well-acted and written with intelligence, it might be worth seeing, despite my objections.
02/15/02
Top CriticIris glows with rightness and convinces us we're sharing its characters' understanding that when the books and the memory go, love can remain.
02/15/02
Top CriticIris sounds as if it would be painful to watch, and in scenes like the one described above, it can be. Yet watching love realistically depicted onscreen remains the greatest joy of film, and its most important gift to the world.
02/14/02
Top CriticA must-see canticle to married love.
02/14/02
Top CriticDemonstrates the catastrophe of disintegration by putting us first in the full thrall of the character's intellect.
02/14/02
Top CriticIt's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings.
02/14/02
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