Gone With the Wind Reviews
Top CriticGone With the Wind endures and deepens with the passing of time because Scarlett and Rhett are as modern as its open ending.
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| Original Score: 5/5
One of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.
A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.
What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?
The film that perhaps defines Hollywood.
'It' has arrived at last, and we cannot get over the shock of not being disappointed; we had almost been looking forward to that.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Everything old is new again with this re-release of Gone With the Wind, and it reminds us that the Golden Age of Hollywood was a beautiful time.
On the whole, I thought the picture was OK.
The first new Technicolor print in 37 years, digital sound and moments of digitally cleaned-up footage scattered throughout its three hours and 42 minutes all make for a gorgeous sight-and-sound experience.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Let us say simply that there is something in most of us that will always treasure Selznick's flair for old-fashioned, full-bodied narrative even as we pay lip service to the most anemic forms of cerebration in the modern cinema.
Undoubtedly still the best and most durable piece of popular entertainment to have come off the Hollywood assembly lines.
Even though the habits of movie- goers have changed over the years, it's easy to see why this film provoked such an outpouring of praise and adulation during its initial release, and why its stature has grown with the passage of decades.
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| Original Score: 9/10
It's that rare film that has overshadowed its own hype.
But once the story kicks in and Leigh and Gable slip into their characters, it's difficult not to be caught up in what is still one of the most vivid depictions of civil war (and its destructive aftermath) ever committed to film.
To see Gone With the Wind on a big screen again is to weep for the fearlessness with which Hollywood once believed the sublime was possible.
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| Original Score: A
