| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 3, 2002

[The] performances, if nothing else, embody a standard of excellence that Iris Murdoch herself would surely have cheered.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2002

The impoverished story keeps Iris from achieving greatness, but no qualifiers are needed for the acting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2002

For a movie whose subject is the decline and fall of a towering intellect, there's precious little to think about here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 23, 2002

There are not two, but four sterling performances here.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 15, 2002

Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 15, 2002

...intrigues and devastates.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2002

The performances are the raison d'etre...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 15, 2002

Because the performances are so powerful, one nearly forgets that in its vaulting between the '50s and '90s, Iris is a story with a beginning and end but without a middle.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2002

As the story of heroic response to tragic illness, Iris is the kind of film often cynically pegged a 'disease of the week' movie. But unlike such formulaic 온라인카지노추천 productions, Iris' heroine is denied the capacity to be inspiring.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 15, 2002

Tune out the hype for countless other movies. This is the one to see.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2002

The performances in Iris -- by Judi Dench as the older Murdoch and Jim Broadbent as her husband, John Bayley, and by Kate Winslet as the younger Murdoch -- are so good that the film is completely compelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2002

...the results are tender, unflinching, raw and wonderful.

| Feb 15, 2002

Because the film is well-acted and written with intelligence, it might be worth seeing, despite my objections.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 15, 2002

Iris glows with rightness and convinces us we're sharing its characters' understanding that when the books and the memory go, love can remain.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2002

Iris sounds as if it would be painful to watch, and in scenes like the one described above, it can be. Yet watching love realistically depicted onscreen remains the greatest joy of film, and its most important gift to the world.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2002

A must-see canticle to married love.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 14, 2002

Demonstrates the catastrophe of disintegration by putting us first in the full thrall of the character's intellect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2002

It's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2002