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Sentimental, slow, schmaltzy, and very satisfying, The Bridges of Madison County finds Clint Eastwood adapting a bestseller with heft, wit, and grace.
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With Eastwood as Kincaid and Meryl Streep as Francesca, this carefully observant love story turns Waller's pop-lit passion into screen art. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
With Eastwood as Kincaid and Meryl Streep as Francesca, this carefully observant love story turns Waller's pop-lit passion into screen art.
Jeff Shannon
Bridges is an admirable achievement, one that probably does more to reposition its maker as someone who can carry a movie without carrying a gun than as the director/star of a Love Story for the Loving Care set. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Bridges is an admirable achievement, one that probably does more to reposition its maker as someone who can carry a movie without carrying a gun than as the director/star of a Love Story for the Loving Care set.
Carrie Rickey
The result, if rather thin and certainly far from a masterpiece, is nevertheless quite lovely. This affecting little film is easily one of Eastwood's best efforts as a director. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The result, if rather thin and certainly far from a masterpiece, is nevertheless quite lovely. This affecting little film is easily one of Eastwood's best efforts as a director.
Jay Boyar
The two leads' sly comic rhythm is miles removed from the book's failing solemnity. Jul 31, 2013 | Full Review…
The two leads' sly comic rhythm is miles removed from the book's failing solemnity.
Anthony Lane
Eastwood's Bridges has the energy and spontaneity of a picture that was shot quickly. And that serves the material well, because it removes the solemnity that could stiffle a modern classic. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Eastwood's Bridges has the energy and spontaneity of a picture that was shot quickly. And that serves the material well, because it removes the solemnity that could stiffle a modern classic.
Gene Siskel
Despite all his craft and sincerity, [Eastwood] and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese can't quite turn Robert James Waller's cardboard best-seller into flesh and bone. Jul 31, 2013 | Full Review…
Despite all his craft and sincerity, [Eastwood] and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese can't quite turn Robert James Waller's cardboard best-seller into flesh and bone.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Book-based romantic drama about a married woman's affair. Oct 17, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Book-based romantic drama about a married woman's affair.
Barbara Shulgasser
The strength of Eastwood's Bridges is in its patience, and how it lets the love story develop from start to finish, even though the audience knows from the beginning the broad strokes of what's going to happen. May 5, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The strength of Eastwood's Bridges is in its patience, and how it lets the love story develop from start to finish, even though the audience knows from the beginning the broad strokes of what's going to happen.
Noel Murray
Those who found Waller's book an outrageously bad read may be gratefully surprised to find less mush in the movie. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Those who found Waller's book an outrageously bad read may be gratefully surprised to find less mush in the movie.
Gary Thompson
Beautifully photographed and directed with an intimate maturity, the film reveals its characters in an unhurried way, thus making the audience accomplices in the unfolding liaison. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Beautifully photographed and directed with an intimate maturity, the film reveals its characters in an unhurried way, thus making the audience accomplices in the unfolding liaison.
Tom Hutchinson
The movie, thank goodness, is better than the book. What's more surprising is that The Bridges of Madison County is an accomplished piece of moviemaking. Jul 31, 2013 | Full Review…
The movie, thank goodness, is better than the book. What's more surprising is that The Bridges of Madison County is an accomplished piece of moviemaking.
Leah Rozen
The emotions evoked by this Bridges are in a minor key compared to the book, but they are honestly earned. Jul 31, 2013 | Full Review…
The emotions evoked by this Bridges are in a minor key compared to the book, but they are honestly earned.
Chauncey Mabe
A perfectly executed film.
Super Reviewer
Same as the book, boring and cliche
I was reluctant to take a chance on this one because of the pretense, but the story and Miss Streep drew me in. Now that I've seen it - no regrets.
Not the quickest moving movie, but worth watching if you can perserve with it. Very sad and has something to say about living the life that makes you happy, and not to please everyone else. The main character does not manage to do this and you see the impact not only on her own life, but on that of her daughter who has been raised to see life in the same way and now also finds herself less than happy in a bad relationship. Sympathy is also there for the husband as it was not his fault he was not the right person for his wife. Nice acting and not a feel good movie, but a good one for anyone who likes to think.
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