Gardens of Stone 1987

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The most important missing ingredient is Mr. Coppola. Read more

Pat Graham, Chicago Reader: Francis Coppola's 1987 Vietnam meditation was his best film in a while, though it's still something less than satisfying. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Every moment is right, and yet the film as a whole is incomplete. Read more

Time Out: There's a pervasive and worrying sense of the central issues being gently but undeniably fudged. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Seems to take its name not so much from the Arlington Memorial Cemetery, where much of the action takes place, but from the stiffness of the characters it portrays. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: There's a curious ambiguity in Coppola's feelings about the soldiers and their life. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A handsome but fragmentary film that can't decide which story to tell. Read more