Shadowlands 1993

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Here is Mr. Hopkins giving an amazingly versatile and moving performance, shifting the light in those knowing blue eyes to reveal endless shadings between delight and sorrow. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Sit back, watch a master at work, and never once believe that you're not observing the real C.S. Lewis. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It understands that not everyone falls into love through the avenue of physical desire; that for some, the lust may be for another's mind, for inner beauty. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Biting down on his pipe, his shirt collar permanently askew, Hopkins assays another concerted study in English repression -- a condition unexpectedly relieved by Winger's brash intelligence and brittle wit. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Superlative acting by Hopkins and Winger elevates this fictionalized late-in-life romance between the repressed British scholar and writer C.S. Lewis and the American Jewish housewife-poet who introduces him to sex and rejuvenates his life. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Shadowlands is illuminated from beginning to end by Hopkins. This may be the best thing he's ever done. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A high-class tear-jerker about the romance of repressed British writer C.S. Lewis with feisty American poet Joy Gresham. Read more