The Good Earth Reviews

Epic in scope, though intimate in effect.

Full Review | Original Score: 81/100

Earnest and solemn, The Good Erath, based on Pearl Buck's Pulitzer prize-winning best-seller, is a typical MGM "prestige" literary adaptation, honoring Luise Rainer with a second (undeserved) Best Actress Oscar.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

No harmful false note is struck.

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more of a time capsule than a great piece of filmmaking

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

It's a typically lumbering, cautious, overblown Thalberg project, saved by Rainer's genuinely moving, Oscar-winning portrayal of Chinese peasantry, and by an immensely spectacular storm of locusts.

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It somehow worked, and was a remarkable tribute to MGM's dream factory.

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Once again Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has enriched the screen with a superb translation of a literary classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Gorgeously photographed, beautifully acted.

| Original Score: 4/5

Classic melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Critical opinion has not been kind, but studio excavators may find much to admire.

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| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 4/5