... Beyond telling us the non-story of a couple, The Bridges of Madison County tells us our story, of all those times we failed to turn the wheel. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 2, 2023

This film starts as a yawnfest, but if you can tough it out through the first 15 minutes it turns into quite a little gem of a movie.

| May 13, 2022

Their story might be small, unglamorous, and generally unexciting, but there's no denying its pleasantness and significance.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Book-based romantic drama about a married woman's affair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2018

The strength of Eastwood's Bridges is in its patience, and how it lets the love story develop from start to finish, even though the audience knows from the beginning the broad strokes of what's going to happen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2014

With Eastwood as Kincaid and Meryl Streep as Francesca, this carefully observant love story turns Waller's pop-lit passion into screen art.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Bridges is an admirable achievement, one that probably does more to reposition its maker as someone who can carry a movie without carrying a gun than as the director/star of a Love Story for the Loving Care set.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Those who found Waller's book an outrageously bad read may be gratefully surprised to find less mush in the movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Beautifully photographed and directed with an intimate maturity, the film reveals its characters in an unhurried way, thus making the audience accomplices in the unfolding liaison.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

The movie, thank goodness, is better than the book. What's more surprising is that The Bridges of Madison County is an accomplished piece of moviemaking.

| Jul 31, 2013

The emotions evoked by this Bridges are in a minor key compared to the book, but they are honestly earned.

| Jul 31, 2013

The result, if rather thin and certainly far from a masterpiece, is nevertheless quite lovely. This affecting little film is easily one of Eastwood's best efforts as a director.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

The two leads' sly comic rhythm is miles removed from the book's failing solemnity.

| Jul 31, 2013

Eastwood's Bridges has the energy and spontaneity of a picture that was shot quickly. And that serves the material well, because it removes the solemnity that could stiffle a modern classic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Despite all his craft and sincerity, [Eastwood] and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese can't quite turn Robert James Waller's cardboard best-seller into flesh and bone.

| Jul 31, 2013

The Bridges of Madison County is as good as it is because of its performances. It's as bad as it is because of its source.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Still one of Hollywood's most assured directors, Clint Eastwood transcends the story's cliches with a classically restrained yet steadily imaginative filmmaking style.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Streep and Eastwood's chemistry makes the film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

Bridges is an old-fashioned "women's film" that pits the heroine's romantic urges against her matriarchal duties. In fact, the film is at its dramatic best when Francesca is finally obliged, like Sophie, to make her choice.

| Jul 31, 2013

Streep makes her character known in no time flat. Intelligence, humor, blocked ambition, self-irony -- they're all contained in Francesca's quick response when Robert asks if she has any plans for the afternoon.

| Jan 7, 2012