While some segments of the film seem to comically lurch from one tragedy to the next, a cosmically melancholy underpinning lingers — that time’s cruel sweep is how mankind tends to minimize moments between our sadness and undervalue the peace we find.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Thelma & Louise and A River Runs Through It may have gotten the wheels turning on the Brad Pitt Heartthrob Express, but it was this handsomely mounted epic that turned the actor into a pinup fave and, more significantly, a genuine star.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2025

Brad Pitt leads an epic Western highlighting the sprawling beauty and tragedy of life in this 1994 movie from The Last Samurai director Edward Zwick.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 2, 2024

It may take place in a man’s world, but this is a women’s picture, in the vein of the overwrought family epics of the 1950s.

| Jan 4, 2024

The first twenty minutes are incredibly slow but after that I was completely locked in. Anthony Hopkins was robbed of a nomination for this.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2023

While it's a bit overlong, this was a pleasant surprise. I really enjoyed the performances, the cinematography and the story of this family trying to keep it together despite multiple hardships and conflicts. Anthony Hopkins is one of the greatest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2023

Every wisp of wind carries some timbre of a guttural growl of passion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2019

In general, director Edward Zwick does a commendable job of keeping things apace, while... John Toll's scrumptiously pristine cinematography and James Horner's piercingly full score.

| Jan 23, 2019

What a magnificent piece of old tosh Legends of the Fall is: playing extremely close to a genius pastiche of the melodrama genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2018

At first, the picture plays like East of Eden with a bonus brother; it gets sillier as it goes.

| Apr 2, 2014

The actors fit their roles exceptionally well, but Zwick rarely allows them the kinds of crucial, intimate moments that establish how the characters feel about each other.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2014

A weird melodramatic epic -- Bonanza crossbred with the kind of novel that uses Fabio on the cover.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2014

While the production is attractive in a calendar-photo sort of way, there's not a speck of genuine feeling in its glossy images.

| Apr 2, 2014

Just when it starts to seem as if Legends might just turn into a pretty good movie, along comes some tired, soap-opera plot device.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2014

The real star, however, is John Toll's Oscar-winning cinematography, which is equally at home with the stunning beauty of the mountainous terrain and the killing fields of war-torn France.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2014

Check your cynicism at the door, and just revel in its enormity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2014

Bloated as a 온라인카지노추천 miniseries two nights too long, Legends of the Fall is stiff and uninteresting.

| Apr 2, 2014

It's a big movie that's so small on the inside it's not there.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2014

There's a vast psychodrama being played out on the Ludlow ranch, battles between generations, philosophies, races and sexes. And the landscapes, photographed by John Toll, majestically backdrop all the personal and cultural furies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2014

Everything about Legends of the Fall shouts epic filmmaking and it is not an altogether unpleasant sound.

| Apr 2, 2014