The Bridges of Madison County
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66 out of 100

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8.2 out of 10

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  • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep
  • Summary: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid (Eastwood) and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson (Streep) aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won’t want to lose the lovove they've found in this story of love, choice and consequence. (Warner Bros.)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    100
    To say that Eastwood, who directed, has done a first-rate job of adaptation fails to do him justice. What he's brought off is closer to alchemy.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    80
    Limited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    80
    Streep and Eastwood's chemistry makes the film.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    60
    While this adaptation of Waller's treacly bodice-ripper leaves out a lot of the lurid excess, it is not altogether free of pomposity.

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  1. JulianB
    10
    A romantic and wonderful movie
  2. PatrickG.
    10
    Clint Eastwood is working on full cylinders here. A very moving portrait. Close to melodrama, but never slipping into the mushy abysm of the novel on which it's based. It deserves all the praise in the world for it's honesty, bravery, and intelligence.… Expand

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