The Horse Whisperer Critic Reviews

With solid, stately acting, and landscapes that could convert atheists, The Horse Whisperer tugs heartstrings without seeming self-conscious.Read the full review

Mr. Redford has found his own visually eloquent way to turn the potboiler into a panorama, with a deep-seated love for the Montana landscape against which his rapturously beautiful film unfolds.Read the full review

A film as rich in its visual presentation as it is in its emotional resonance. Read the full review

The movie is not only a better version of the book, it's a work unto itself.Read the full review

Directing himself for the first time, Redford has lavished his usual meticulous care on popular material that comes alive on the screen in ways that it never could on the page.Read the full review

A handsome and effective-if over-long-tear-jerker about thwarted love between grown-ups who should know better.Read the full review

Robert Redford has shown that he has a real feeling for the West--he's not a movie tourist--and there is a magnificence in his treatment here that dignifies what is essentially a soap opera. Read the full review

All the nuggets of spoken wisdom rattle around with a tad too much space and (at 2 1/2 hours plus) too much length. Read the full review

Robert Redford, who for the first time stars in a movie he's also directed, has taken this soap opera material and treated it like something inscribed on yak vellum by the Dalai Lama.Read the full review