| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Just about perfect." more... |
A |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...evokes a backwater of the Civil War with rare beauty..." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro |
"Minghella takes an appropriately sober tone..." more... |
B- |
| E! Online |
"Stirring and sad and lovely all at the same time, this movie reaches for cinematic heights--and often finds them." more... |
A- |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"Frigid and detached to the point of numbness, the passionless period piece is too staged, too dry, and too silly to matter..." more... |
C- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Anthony Minghella's exploration of Charles Frazier's novel catches his themes with intelligence and cinematic grace." more... |
A- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"There are a lot of things to like about Cold Mountain..." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"Cold Mountain has it all: love, war, humor, suspense and a probing sense of what it takes for a divided America to heal its wounds." more... |
A- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"We desperately need a payoff for our emotional investment -- some sense of atonement, perhaps -- but all we get is relief when the film is over." more... |
B |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"...the equal of any Civil War movie ever made." more... |
A- |
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