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.
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10/27/08
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
Top CriticLittle happens here apart from a long, slow buildup to sentimentalized coitus, but there's no denying the sheer screen presence of these two 500-lb. gorillas of pop culture.
10/27/08
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
Perhaps the only time in history a movie was far better than its source material
08/21/08
Whether 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
Given 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 Critic...an old-fashioned love story for adults.
05/23/08
In Eastwood's hands, it seems, even divorce can be more romantic than orgasms under the right circumstances.
08/06/06
Clint's movie is muddy, dusty and full of flies. It took a real man like Eastwood to really fall in love.
07/31/06
Immaculately performed, and assembled with wit and sensitivity, this is one of the most satisfying weepies in years.
06/24/06
Atmospheric love story with Eastwood and Streep in great form.
06/29/05
Eastwood can do no wrong in my eyes ... but he came dangerously close with this one.
04/03/05
Better than the book.
05/31/04
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
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01/16/04
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11/20/03
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05/20/03
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