Like any good Hollywood suffering artist [she] goes and walks through a thunderstorm for 10 minutes and then conies in. dripping wet, to type out her first masterpiece.

Full Review | May 11, 2021

Ritt is an able and honourable film-maker but when his heart is on his sleeve like this, the result tends to be the kind of liberal Hollywood movie that looks and tastes like fudge.

Full Review | May 10, 2021

It is puzzling, then, that in the end the film is so uncompelling.

Full Review | May 10, 2021

Cross Creek is a lyrical but vivid portrait of life in the untamed backwoods of Central Florida in the late 1920s.

Full Review | Oct 22, 2018

It's an uncompelling, yet warm, tale which lightly skips over the woman's travails by illustrating a series of vignettes of rural humanity.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2008

Somehow, Mr. Ritt manages to use this very artificiality in the service of an optimism that is very much his own.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003