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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings. Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: Think obsessive-compulsive Lady Macbeth or Ophelia with an eating disorder, and you have an idea of just how simplistic that seems. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although the plot is undeniably overwrought at times, the characters remain strong and reliable, and it's their believability that pulls us through. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film substitutes prejudices for ideas, formula feminism for character studies, and a signposted plot for a well-told story. Read more
Gary Kamiya, Salon.com: Ploddingly literal, A Thousand Acres is basically a star vehicle that relies on superior acting to redeem it. It does have superior acting, but that's not nearly enough. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Don't blame the actors. Their efforts succeed in keeping the bad news from the audience for almost half the picture. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: From the first frame, a silhouetted barn and windmill at dawn, the images feel prefab, and the all-purpose wistful tinkly piano and sighing strings pin them even more boringly down. Read more
Godfrey Cheshire, Variety: Owing more to the spirit of Oprah than to the Bard, pic serves up an earnest but unconvincing stew of received notions about family dysfunction, awkwardly put across by a script wheezing with melodramatic contrivances. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: That Jane Smileya(TM)s A Thousand Acres would become a movie was inevitable. Another virtual certainty was its bowdlerization. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: In many ways, it has less in common with Shakespeare's tragedy than with Stephen King's Iowa-set horror story, Children of the Corn. Read more