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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The performances are so beautifully synchronized -- for which Hare, Daldry and editor Peter Boyle also deserve credit -- that it is impossible to choose one as being better than another. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The film actually improves on Cunningham's novel, thanks to gorgeous cinematography, a deft script by playwright David Hare ... a mournful, melodious but never intrusive score by Philip Glass and a superb cast. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: There's been so much talk about the fact that [Kidman] wears this prosthetic device you know so that you can't even recognize her. But beyond that it's just a really good performance. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a collection of elusive moments and connections, a musing on nothing less than the meaning of life itself. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: David Hare's screen adaptation reduces Woolf and her art to a set of feminist stances and a few plot points, without reference to style or form. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It never fails to engage us. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Far from a bad film, and at least two of its central trio of performances provide moments of disarming grace, but don't be surprised if a whiff of self-congratulation emanates from the screen. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A film whose cumulative emotional power takes viewers by surprise, capturing us unawares in its ability to move us as deeply as it does. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: A compelling, moving film that respects its audience and its source material. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A viewer can forget about Woolf, not care a fig about Cunningham, and just bathe -- soak, more like -- in the voluptuous sadnesses of Mss. Woolf, Brown, and Vaughan, delineated with such refinement by Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Hare manages to 'open up' the book by dramatizing the characters' inner turmoil exactly as he would have to on stage. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Some moviegoers may interpret The Hours as waving a banner for gay life. Actually, it waves a banner for individuality in a world that does not always sanction such a stance. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Hare's crisp screenplay adroitly ... keeps faith with Cunningham's meditative prose while adding enough unobtrusive exposition to externalize the characters' emotional lives. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Some fine acting, but ultimately a movie with no reason for being. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: A puzzling and forbidding strangeness. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mr. Daldry and Mr. Hare have succeeded in preserving and even enhancing both the episodic structure and the spiritual essence of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cunningham novel. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: I'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled, but, for those with at least a minimal appreciation of Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway, The Hours represents two of those well spent. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: For a movie audience, The Hours doesn't connect in a neat way, but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex, duty and love. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A film that's fuller and deeper than the book. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: I found the film, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare, excruciatingly flat-footed, with one of the most exasperating scores (by Philip Glass) ever written. Read more
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It takes extraordinary actors to make a movie like this work, and The Hours is blessed with an abundance of them. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: This movie is in love with female victimization. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Like the best literature, it stays with you long after its conclusion. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Considerable intelligence and strategic finesse have been brought to bear on this handsomely mounted adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: It's an astonishing Kidman who contributes the film's -- and maybe the year's -- most inspired turn. Read more