The Field 1990

Critics score:
43 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: The Field is a movie that all too often reveals its origins as a play. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Field is a grim allegory of hard life on the land -- a symbolic play, transplanted uneasily to the greater realism of the film medium, where what we might accept on the stage now looks contrived and artificial. Read more

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Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Sheridan seems out in left field here, undone by the sheer hokum of the material. Read more

Eve Zibart, Washington Post: A painfully overwrought combination of A Touch of the Poet and Zorba the Greek. Read more