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The Hours (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...masterful..." more... A- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...a meditation on separate episodes linked by a certain sensibility..." more... A- Chicago Tribune Mark Caro "It's got a cast that oozes class..." more... B   Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "The acting talent on display in The Hours is so high-powered it sometimes overruns the dense, emotional story." more... A- E! Online "...not much happens here, but boy, is it intense." more... B   Film Journal International Erica Abeel "...only partially succeeds in capturing the book's lived textures." more... B   filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "A Masters degree and a penchant for PBS' Masterpiece Theatre aren't required to fully comprehend and enjoy the picture, but they help." more... B- Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "...makes for a fascinating and ultimately successful stunt in its cross-cutting among the decades." more... A   LA Weekly Ella Taylor "Daldry...makes the most of Cunningham's flair for depicting the small details that are so salient in many women's lives." more... C+ Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "The Pulitzer-winning The Hours shouldn't work as a studio film, but it does — splendidly." more... A   New York Post Lou Lumenick "...will no doubt figure prominently in the awards season." more... B   New York Times Stephen Holden "...deeply moving..." more... A   ReelViews James Berardinelli "...a triumph of acting." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Kidman's acting is superlative, full of passion and feeling." more... A   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "The result is something rare, especially considering how fine the novel is, a film that's fuller and deeper than the book." more... A   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...a distinct rarity, and an event." more... B+ Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez "...a preposterous faux-feminist manifesto that blames the woes of the modern day female on her historical disconnectedness." more... C   USA Today Claudia Puig "...one of the more compelling ways to pass the time during these colder months." more... B   Village Voice Dennis Lim "...it's an astonishing Kidman who contributes the film's—and maybe the year's—most inspired turn." more... A   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)