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100Robert Redford's sensitive, unhurried movie of A River Runs Through It is so faithful to the book that it becomes that rare thing - a beautiful celebration of the power of literature. [09 Oct 1992]
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100A tasteful, richly textured, exquisitely nostalgic drama that carries with it an enormous emotional punch. [09 Oct 1992]
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A River Runs Through It, Mr. Redford's beautiful and deeply felt new movie, puts him in an entirely new category as a film maker.
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90A skilled, careful adaptation of a much-admired story, A River Runs Through It is a convincing trip back in time to a virtually vanished American West, as well as a nicely observed family study.
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88Redford and his writer, Richard Friedenberg, understand that most of the events in any life are accidential or arbitrary, especially the crucial ones, and we can exercise little conscious control over our destinies.
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88This is a beautifully-shot film, and director Robert Redford (who also provides the voice-over narration) has paid painstaking attention to detail.
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A pure cinematic distillation of Maclean's words, it is by turns austere and vibrant, disconsolate and joyful.
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75The story is told handsomely and affectingly with images, facial expressions and body language. [16 Oct 1992]
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75It's perfectly admirable, absolutely controlled, and fully understandable. [09 Oct 1992]
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It's difficult to imagine a better film adaptation of Maclean's work. [16 Oct 1992]
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70Whatever the movie's failings, it had enough poignancy and beauty to make me want to find out what was missing. [08 Oct 1992]
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70It is a serious and, at times, moving film, and it deserves serious analysis.
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The words - taken directly from the book - are beautifully cast, but they encapsulate the emotions too conveniently.
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63Even set against the Sierra Club beauty of Redford's Montana, it's hard to get excited by fisherman casting their lines into the water.
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63Though Maclean's bedrock prose is perfection in print, the film may be another case (like actor Redford's "The Great Gatsby") in which text defies translation. [09 Oct 1992]
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60From Phillippe Rousselot's exquisite cinematography, with the stunning scenery of Montana as a backdrop, to Redford's assured direction, this is utterly alluring, and manages to make fly-fishing seem not just romantic, but thrilling.
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60Loving and well-intentioned though this film is, it never convinces you that its subject matter merits this kind of idealized, worshipful attention. [09 Oct 1992]
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60An admirable if frequently soporific 1992 adaptation of Norman Maclean's account of life in Missoula, Montana.
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50In relying on narration, Redford's movie is too little show and too much tell.
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50A River Runs Through It emerges as hopelessly middle-brow-the kind of diluted, prettified art traditionally associated with PBS and the Academy Awards. [09 Oct 1992]
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50It works better as a nature and historical study than as a drama, though.
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