Clint's movie is muddy, dusty and full of flies. It took a real man like Eastwood to really fall in love.
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07/31/06
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:35
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.1/10
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Reviews for The Bridges of Madison County
Immaculately performed, and assembled with wit and sensitivity, this is one of the most satisfying weepies in years.
06/24/06
A more than solid piece of entertainment that proves that romance isn't dead after all.
01/29/03
Bridges is another example of Eastwood's remarkable economy of style as both a director and an actor. It is neither his best work nor his worst, though it is a fascinating exploration.
01/01/00
The Bridges of Madison County is a beautiful film, not only in the way it was photographed, but for the manner through which the characters are revealed to us.
01/01/00
Top CriticProbes the poetics of desire and yearning in two soulmates.
08/27/02
Madison County is Eastwood's gift to women: to Francesca, to all the girls he's loved before -- and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion.
10/27/08
Top CriticI've seen the movie twice now and was even more involved the second time, because I was able to pay more attention to the nuances of voice and gesture.
01/01/00
Top CriticEastwood and co-star Meryl Streep perform alchemy here; while adhering to whatever it was that sold 5.6 million copies of Waller's book, they've transformed the material into something far better.
04/17/02
In Eastwood's hands, it seems, even divorce can be more romantic than orgasms under the right circumstances.
08/06/06
As director, Eastwood has decided to go for cinematic poetry, and occasionally he manages to achieve just that.
01/01/00
What the movie does that the book couldn't do is tap into the poignancy that comes of seeing two stars who used to be young and beautiful suddenly looking very mortal.
06/18/02
Top CriticWhether Meryl Streep deserved an Oscar nomination may be debatable, but what's beyond dispute is that scripter Richard LaGravenese and director Clint Eastwood have actually made a better, more enjoyable film than the schmaltzy literary source.
07/15/08
An unlikely choice as director and producer, it's thanks to Eastwood's relatively thin sentimental streak that the film doesn't fall headlong into a lagoon of schmaltz.
10/27/08
Limited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill.
05/17/04
Top CriticGiven the intelligent restraint of the treatment, this is about as fine an adaptation of this material as one could hope for...
06/23/08
Top CriticUtter pap, redeemed only by the professionalism of its stars in sub-standard material.
01/01/00
Respect to Clint for putting his cojones on the line to make a 'chick flick,' and utmost respect to him for pulling it off with aplomb.
01/01/00
...an old-fashioned love story for adults.
05/23/08
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