Thought-provoking movie for teens and up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Hallstrom's film could have used more dramatic muscle but is nonetheless a touching, old-fashioned charmer that ultimately satisfies.

| May 30, 2008

Mr. Irving remains a disturbingly facile spinner of yarns in which the most sordid facts of life are glossed over into comfortably didactic homilies about the innate goodness of people. Yet, I was somehow moved...

| Apr 27, 2007

Hallstrm's humanism is possibly a little low key and romantic given such tough themes as abortion and incest.

| Jun 24, 2006

What's bizarre about the movie is how it grafts greeting-card schmaltz on to a muckraking liberal agenda.

| Dec 2, 2002

[It] is a fable that turns into a 1940s New England variation on Charles Dickens. It is also one dickens of an American movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

A voluptuous page-turner of a movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Guided by Mr. Hallstrom and anchored by Mr. Irving, The Cider House Rules achieves a lovely unity that's rare in such an episodic movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Irving is lucky in his cast -- especially Caine and Lindo as the flawed father figures.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The first screenplay Irving wrote from his own book, and the job suits him.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

Oddly, most of the elements needed for a good movie are present here, but when added together they equal less than the sum of the parts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Maguire is party to the scenic movie Hallstrom's making but offers an otherwise absent naturalism that's alluring and identifiable in it very ordinariness.

| Jan 1, 2000

Beautifully enacted literary cinema, with the thoughtful, subtle Maguire a perfectly Irvingesque 20th century hero.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Easily the finest film realization of an Irving novel.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Deliciously satisfying.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The Cider House Rules pales by comparison with the gutsier, more full-bodied adaptation of Irving's The World According to Garp.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000