Hearts in Atlantis Critic Reviews
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Rarely does a movie make you feel so warm and so uneasy at the same time.Read the full review
Yes, it's corny and reemerging cynics need not apply. But it is blissfully heartwarming.Read the full review
Assisted by a well-crafted script by the veteran William Goldman and a masterful performance by Anthony Hopkins, Hicks has turned two King short stories into a somber meditation on the dreams and frustrations of childhood and the ways the adult world makes its darker qualities known.Read the full review
A powerful and surehandedly crafted depth charge of a movie.Read the full review
Don't underestimate the appeal of a heart-tugger that's this well mounted.Read the full review
Too poky and contrived to be a good movie, but its lushly serene atmospherics, given current events, make it a pure slice of sentimental comfort food.Read the full review
The few who saw the embalmed adaptation of "Snow Falling on Cedars" will recognize the same stifling approach brought to this more accessible material by director Scott Hicks.Read the full review
What a shame, though, that the movie isn't a livelier business.Read the full review
Unabashedly sentimental, it's meant to touch our hearts in profound and important ways, but misses the mark by drawing too deeply from a pool of schmaltz.Read the full review
The movie is pleasant enough, in its studied way, and Mr. Hopkins does as well as anyone could in the role of a wise man with vaguely supernatural powers. Still, it's awfully amorphous and pokey.Read the full review
