Literary adaptations rarely come more intelligent than this. A beautiful, haunting masterpiece from start to finish.
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05/24/03
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
Reviews for Sophie's Choice
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
Top CriticA 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.
11/05/09
A substantial movie, and one serious film watchers won't want to miss.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/30/02
No review available.
04/21/05
The 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
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.
05/26/03
No review available.
07/29/02
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
"Streep's magnetic, shattering performance haunts the memory"
07/29/02
Wildly depressing.
10/28/02
No review available.
09/05/03
No review available.
09/02/04
Heartbreakingly lovely performances.
07/20/03
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 CriticIncorporates 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
No review available.
09/17/04
This is the way stories are supposed to be told to us sitting out there in the dark theater.
01/01/00
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