Iris (2001) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Because the film is well-acted and written with intelligence, it might be worth seeing, despite my objections. I suspect my own feelings.Read the full review
The movie's most artful feature is the fluidity with which the past slides into the present, echoing Murdoch's own unmoored sentience, so that the younger self, played with dash and vigor by Kate Winslet, turns into the old woman lost in her own home.Read the full review
Intelligent, poignant film.Read the full review
It's a powerful, affecting tale that uses scenes of the young couple's new love as a counterpoint to Iris' final days - memories of a brightest spring echoing in the darkest depths of winter.Read the full review
Director Richard Eyre has struck gold. Twice. Dench and Winslet are a riveting matchup.Read the full review
Splendid.Read the full review
Rarely does a movie feel as leaden-footed as Iris, especially when it tries to bounce back and forth. The audience is transported between two very obvious stories and becomes slightly irritated by the grinding inevitability of both of them. As a result, Iris Murdoch gets lost in the shuffle.Read the full review
Despite the sad denouement, it's still the love story of the year.Read the full review
A triumph on the casting side but less so dramatically, Richard Eyre's Iris fails to do full justice to its subject.Read the full review
I regretted it most when the temporal hopscotching took me away from Ms. Winslet's portrait of the writer as a young sensualist, madly smitten by words and life.Read the full review
