The Princess Bride Reviews
Radio Times
An unexpected delight for all the family.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Shall we re-wind and give it another spin? As you wish...
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film4
A witty, even clever-clever, exercise in deconstructing fairytales that became something of a cult with fans of its ironic/comic charms.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Common Sense Media
Witty, winsome fairy tale for the whole family.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
An inordinately smart and sly motion picture, one that has enough simple pleasures to succeed as one of the better popcorn movies of its decade.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Screen It!
There is so much to latch onto in this movie, so much for each member of a family that watches it together to love.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Slant Magazine
A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script: "True love is the greatest thing in the world."
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
One of Reiner's most entertaining films, effective as a swashbuckling epic, romantic fable, and satire of these genres.
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| Original Score: B
Combustible Celluloid
One of the hottest cult videos of the 1980s, and a family classic besides, enjoyed by new generations of youngsters as well as their parents.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Top CriticRob Reiner's friendly 1987 fairy-tale adventure delicately mines the irony inherent in its make-believe without ever undermining the effectiveness of the fantasy.
Moviehole
One of the Top films of the 1980s - if not, of all time. A treasure of a film that you'll want to watch again and again
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
An effective comedy, an interesting bedtime tale, and one of the greatest date rentals of all time.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Decent Films Guide
One of those rare satiric gems, like The Court Jester and Galaxy Quest, that doesn't just send up a genre, but honors it at the same time.
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| Original Score: A
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A seminal cult classic the exact appeal of which has always eluded me, though most of the world seems to adore it.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Arizona Daily Star
The lesson it most effectively demonstrates is that cinema has the power to turn you into a kid again. As we wish.
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| Original Score: 4/4
