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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Like Frazier, Minghella has artfully wrangled what is essentially a series of allegorical episodes into an emotional experience of cumulative impact. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Law's performance ... sustains us throughout the movie, just as love sustains Inman during his long separation from Ada. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: In terms of pedigree and sheer, lush filmmaking, the movie has class written all over it. And that's part of the problem. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Good, sometimes thrilling, but it's less a war epic than an evocative romantic melodrama with a patchy first hour. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a good movie not a great one. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: One of the most intelligent and caring book-to-screen transitions ever made. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Three quarters of Cold Mountain consist of some of the most masterful and absorbing filmmaking of the year. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: An unabashed romantic, Minghella takes to Ada and Inman's love story with appreciable feeling, but the irony of Cold Mountain is that it's the director's grasp of violent action that proves his greatest cinematic gift. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: A beautiful tale, tragic and mournful. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: [Minghella] once again has achieved the miracle of transforming a difficult book with an inner narrative into a deeply satisfying film. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: A sublime story of brute living and ethereal yearning. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A willed exercise in mythmaking. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: So rich with detail that each viewer will discover a scene and a character worth cherishing. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Low emotional wattage in what ought to be a soaring romance. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: [Law and Kidman] share a fatal lack of chemistry together, and it's a flaw this grandly ambitious movie cannot overcome. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: That the film Cold Mountain is so much better than the best-selling Charles Frazier novel makes it quite the rare thing -- only The Godfather comes immediately to mind as an example of a major movie that so surpasses its source material. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Cold Mountain is a movie of episodes, and Minghella pulls off dazzling set pieces: he knows how to infuse violence with emotion, so it never seems gratuitous. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Has the big, glossy feel of a Hollywood epic that's been worked up by experts. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: There is something distancing about the film, and I don't refer to the Romanian mountains standing for North Carolina's Blue Ridge. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: As they might have said in the old days, this sweeping historical romance is one heck of a classy picture which is both its great virtue and its limitation. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A film of many excellences undermined by a flawed narrative. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: Underneath the movie's cold surface, Cold Mountain turns out to be a volcano. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It evokes a backwater of the Civil War with rare beauty, and lights up with an assortment of colorful supporting characters. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Cold is right -- Anthony Minghella's pretty, star-studded adaptation of the bestselling Civil War romance never makes it above freezing. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: At 154 minutes, Cold Mountain is long and seems long, at times inspired, at times merely dutiful. But in most of the important ways, it succeeds. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Nicole Kidman and Jude Law get top billing, but it's Renee Zellweger who steals the show. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The dazzle doesn't add up to the sustained act of brilliance I'd been expecting. For all its many strengths, the picture ultimately feels like a mild -- and I emphasize mild -- disappointment. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Crowded with fascinating supporting characters, who make the long haul -- the movie clocks in at 2 1/2 hours -- worth attempting. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The year's most rapturous love story. Read more
Time Out: If the love story is asked to carry more weight than it can bare, at least this is a film of rich measure and ambition. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Watching this movie, it seems to be the next level down from great -- maybe too episodic. But it burns in the memory weeks after you see it. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: [Law's] actorly determination matches Kidman's -- there's more chemistry in their tintypes than their interactions -- although the script decrees that these cool operators make a sweet pair of sweeties. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's a great old-fashioned wallow of a time at the movies. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's enough of a spectacle to enjoy. It's too bad the stars are little more than serviceable and give the movie title an irony it could certainly do without. Read more