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David Hare's screen adaptation reduces Woolf and her art to a set of feminist stances and a few plot points, without reference to style or form. February 11, 2008 | Full Review…
David Hare's screen adaptation reduces Woolf and her art to a set of feminist stances and a few plot points, without reference to style or form.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A boldly realised, affecting work. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
A boldly realised, affecting work.
Derek Adams
A puzzling and forbidding strangeness. August 7, 2004
A puzzling and forbidding strangeness.
Peter Rainer
An elegant movie-triptych - its constituent, handsomely mounted panels are inhabited by three earnest, meticulous performances. March 25, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An elegant movie-triptych - its constituent, handsomely mounted panels are inhabited by three earnest, meticulous performances.
Peter Bradshaw
Lyrical and surprisingly uplifting -- if you're willing to invest full attention. January 29, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Lyrical and surprisingly uplifting -- if you're willing to invest full attention.
Stella Papamichael
The film actually improves on Cunningham's novel, thanks to gorgeous cinematography, a deft script by playwright David Hare ... a mournful, melodious but never intrusive score by Philip Glass and a superb cast. January 17, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The film actually improves on Cunningham's novel, thanks to gorgeous cinematography, a deft script by playwright David Hare ... a mournful, melodious but never intrusive score by Philip Glass and a superb cast.
Connie Ogle
The problem with The Hours' overt literariness is that it makes it a very pleading work; the film wants you to "get it" at every single point of its discourse. October 31, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The problem with The Hours' overt literariness is that it makes it a very pleading work; the film wants you to "get it" at every single point of its discourse.
PJ Nabarro
The Hours is a serious and moving film, one that achieves many of its goals; among other things, it will presumably have many, many more people reading Mrs. Dalloway than Woolf could ever have dreamed of. August 20, 2018 | Full Review…
The Hours is a serious and moving film, one that achieves many of its goals; among other things, it will presumably have many, many more people reading Mrs. Dalloway than Woolf could ever have dreamed of.
Daniel Mendelsohn
The effect is much cruder than the book: you're aware of the geometric patterns linking the parallel stories; everything seems a little too pat, the emblems of the era a little too obviously emblematic - cake-baking in the Fifties, Aids now. January 30, 2018 | Full Review…
The effect is much cruder than the book: you're aware of the geometric patterns linking the parallel stories; everything seems a little too pat, the emblems of the era a little too obviously emblematic - cake-baking in the Fifties, Aids now.
Mark Steyn
It's a must-see. Mainstream epics routinely privilege the father-son bond... In The Hours, patriarchs barely figure, and the only phallic weapon on display is Virginia's pen. November 15, 2017 | Full Review…
It's a must-see. Mainstream epics routinely privilege the father-son bond... In The Hours, patriarchs barely figure, and the only phallic weapon on display is Virginia's pen.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
The script, the score, the sets, the costumes, and the direction are all Oscar quality, and incredible performances from Kidman, Moore, Streep and Harris make The Hours seem like minutes. February 25, 2015 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
The script, the score, the sets, the costumes, and the direction are all Oscar quality, and incredible performances from Kidman, Moore, Streep and Harris make The Hours seem like minutes.
Joel Siegel
Smart, thoughtful movie for older teens and up. December 28, 2010 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Smart, thoughtful movie for older teens and up.
Nell Minow
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