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100
Viewer score based on 2 votes.

Critic Score

67
Critics' score based on 8 reviews.
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hauntingly power performances and themes! I recommend this movie very hightly. It is a heavy theme but well worth the view! A+++ movie! So... fully acted by the 3 main players. Full Review

October 15,2011
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Critic Reviews

Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Thanks in large part to Miss Streep's bravura performance, it's a film that casts a powerful, uninterrupted spell.Full Review

Janet Maslin
The New York Times

The film is a respectable, claustrophobic and slick piece of work, and cinematographer Nestor Almendros' color strategies - Rembrandt-like light at night, lemony tones during the day, desaturated sepia at Auschwitz - are arty to a fault. [14 Dec 1982]Full Review

Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

The overall result is a serious though harrowing journey into the dark corners of this century, marked by a compassionate approach and even a fillip of optimism at the end.Full Review

David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

Alan Pakula's literal adaptation of William Styron's Sophie's Choice is an admirable, if reverential, movie that crams this triangle into a 2 1/2 -hour character study enriched by Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, and nearly destroyed by Peter MacNicol. [21 Jan 1983]Full Review

Michael Blowen
Boston Globe
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