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It's filled with vivid characters and action. Beneath its modesty of gesture, it's one of the year's richest, most humane films.Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe

Lasse Hallström calms Irving's typically busy 1985 best-seller with a balm of the Swedish director's typically soothing lyricism.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

A touching, old-fashioned charmer that ultimately satisfies.Full Review

David Rooney
Variety

That Irving adapted his novel to the screen himself and, even more, that Hallström directed it, makes Cider House a far better film than other film adaptations of Irving's work.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

The author's fantastical world of wonders and the director's tender-hearted compassion mesh into what is easily the finest film realization of an Irving novel.Full Review

Stephen Holden
The New York Times
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