Though I'm more than willing to sit through this kind of thing, I got it pretty quickly, and eventually overdosed on the glorious horsey-ness of it.

| Nov 28, 2023

This is the fastidiously rendered work of a craftsman, and a sob-inducing, beautifully old-fashioned affair which is bound to irritate the hell out of a younger audience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2023

The movie is not only a better version of the book, it's a work unto itself. The story is subtler, and the moral issues it raises are far more complex.

| Nov 28, 2023

Pays sensitive homage to the wide-open landscape and psychology of the West...

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Directing himself for the first time, Redford has lavished his usual meticulous care on popular material that comes alive on the screen in ways that it never could on the page.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2007

This has loads of craft and honor but never quite takes off.

| Nov 8, 2007

We are not talking postmodern or even modern here, but the best kind of old-fashioned.

| Apr 27, 2007

Scott Thomas can only squint at her co-star, halo'd against yet another sunset: these are the aesthetics of the shampoo commercial, soft soap for adolescent girls of all ages.

| Jun 24, 2006

That lack of identifiable passion is The Horse Whisperer's most vexing problem.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

As good as Redford and Scott Thomas are at the outset, they can't convey the passion necessary to make the affair believable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

...an intelligent, lush-looking tale...

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

What The Horse Whisperer loses in storybook romance it gains in rock-solid values and a stirringly profound respect for nature...

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

Redford seems to have fooled himself into thinking the story of The Horse Whisperer runs much deeper than it does.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

...there is a magnificence in his treatment here that dignifies what is essentially a soap opera.

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

Redford's adaptation of Nicholas Evans' bestselling novel is a countrified, monolithic thing of beauty...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000