A suffocating 151 minutes long, with a healthy portion of that running time devoted to a hunk of Holocausploitation of the most crass and cynical variety. And that's the good part.
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11/05/09
Sophie's Choice (1982)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:21
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The film follows Stingo, an aspiring young writer who moves to New York just post-WWII to a Brooklyn boarding house where he becomes friends with Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline), a Jewish research... [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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04/30/09
Top CriticStunning to the max, and Streep is memorable as Sophie.
03/02/08
The movie is too Hollywood in look and feel--it's garish and overwrought--and the flashback and narration are too conventional, and yet the image of the sickly and pale Meryl Streep recollecting her ordeal lingers in memory long after the film is over.
12/10/07
Competently directed by Pakula and [features] gorgeous cinematography by Almendros.
06/26/07
Astoundingly tedious.
06/26/07
Top CriticThe picture is completely devoid of cinematic interest, adopting instead a tiresome theatrical aesthetic in which showy monologues are filmed in interminable, usually ill-chosen long takes.
06/26/07
Top CriticBy the end, the accumulated weight and lethargy of the production fails to invest Sophie's fate with the significance Styron achieves.
06/24/06
No review available.
04/21/05
So perfectly cast and well-imagined that it just takes over and happens to you. It's quite an experience.
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
09/17/04
No review available.
09/02/04
Though it's far from a flawless movie, Sophie's Choice is a unified and deeply affecting one. Thanks in large part to Miss Streep's bravura performance, it's a film that casts a powerful, uninterrupted spell.
08/30/04
Top CriticNo review available.
07/16/04
No review available.
09/05/03
Heartbreakingly lovely performances.
07/20/03
No review available.
05/26/03
Literary adaptations rarely come more intelligent than this. A beautiful, haunting masterpiece from start to finish.
05/24/03
Incorporates one woman's narrative of surviving the Holocaust into a larger, crushingly banal story of a young, Southern writer's coming of age in the big city of New York.
01/10/03
Wildly depressing.
10/28/02
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