Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore bring dignity and Oscar-worthy performances to The Hours, a lovingly crafted meditation on death, loss and literature.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
A splendid film. It uses all the resources of cinema -- masterful writing, superb acting, directorial intelligence, an enveloping score, top-of-the-line production design, costumes, cinematography and editing -- to make a film whose cumulative emotional power takes viewers by surprise, capturing us unawares in its ability to move us as deeply as it does.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
It never disconnects from two values: its honesty and its intensity.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
With its deft intercutting of place and time, the film creates a powerful sense of mysticism and fate.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Dennis Lim
It's an astonishing Kidman who contributes the film's -- and maybe the year's -- most inspired turn.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
For a movie audience, The Hours doesn't connect in a neat way, but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex, duty and love.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Still: The Hours is a book about people writing, reading, and living another book, and that literariness makes the movie resist itself.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
I'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled, but, for those with at least a minimal appreciation of Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway, The Hours represents two of those well spent.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
These three unimprovable actresses make The Hours a thing of beauty.Read Full Review »
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