Sophie's Choice
  • Studio: CBS/Fox
  • Release Date: Dec 8, 1982
User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16

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Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Michael Blowen
    75
    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]
  2. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    20
    The picture is completely devoid of cinematic interest, adopting instead a tiresome theatrical aesthetic in which showy monologues are filmed in interminable, usually ill-chosen long takes.
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  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie.
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