It's filled with vivid characters and action. Beneath its modesty of gesture, it's one of the year's richest, most humane films.Read Full Review »
83
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lasse Hallström calms Irving's typically busy 1985 best-seller with a balm of the Swedish director's typically soothing lyricism.Read Full Review »
80
Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
More honest than any conventional morality tale. Here there are no heroes and no real villains; the good guys are all flawed and even bad guys are sometimes capable of the noblest of acts.Read Full Review »
80
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
That Irving adapted his novel to the screen himself and, even more, that Hallström directed it, makes Cider House a far better film than other film adaptations of Irving's work.Read Full Review »
80
The New York Times: Stephen Holden
The author's fantastical world of wonders and the director's tender-hearted compassion mesh into what is easily the finest film realization of an Irving novel.Read Full Review »
He (Irving) has been able to capture the quirky tone of the popular novel.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The movie is pure pro-choice agitprop, as it tracks Homer's conversion to the cause of choice and posits the heroism of the abortionist. Pro-lifers will hate it on that point alone.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: Amy Taubin
This adaptation of John Irving's novel--- is as paternalistic, puffed-up, and dull as a congressional debate about abortion rights.Read Full Review »
63
USA Today: Mike Clark
This being Irving, the story straddles the sweet and the creepy.Read Full Review »
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