Unfortunately, its memoir story is enormously dull and not even Meryl Streep's delicate performance can prevent the love affair from plummeting into predictable plains. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 11, 2025

A disjointed, lumpen snoozer that improves in its final half but completely whiffs the ending. It's also one of Meryl Streep's least interesting and most perfunctorily Oscar-nominated performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2024

There are many who consider Out of Africa a weak Best Picture Oscar winner, but I vehemently disagree.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2023

As far as romance goes, Out of Africa runs the full gamut of archetypal themes. While it often induces a yawn, it is gorgeous to look at.

| Jun 27, 2023

Once again, Streep adds a third dimension to a two-dimensional medium; once again she brings humanity and intelligence to a remarkable portrait that must be added to what has become a gallery of such portraits.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 25, 2023

The scenes between Streep and Redford have a certain quality to them, a recognizable essence, I suppose, that boasts both a maturity and an honesty.

| Mar 31, 2021

Considering the wealth of writings by Isak Dinesen and others that its makers had to draw on, this lumbering, $30-million prestige picture is astonishingly glossy, distressingly conventional, and grossly overlong.

| Mar 31, 2021

Out of Africa is simply superb.

| Jan 13, 2021

Sydney Pollack's glorious and stirring Out of Africa is a big-screen epic in the very best sense.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 13, 2021

Though it has many engaging moments (mostly in its first 40 minutes, out of 150), producer/director Sydney Pollack's attempt to dramatize Isak Dinesen's years as a pioneer farmer in Kenya ultimately fails as drama and as romance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2021

Pollack deserves a good part of the praise for this superb project. From seeing the potential in Dinesen's story in the first place, to bringing it to the screen in such a rich, balanced and engaging way, he deserves thanks along with the accolades.

| Jan 13, 2021

The beauty of Out of Africa, From the very opening shots, is rhapsodic and illustrative rather than dramatic. This large-scale adaptation of Isak Dinesen's marvelous memoir never catches fire.

| Jan 13, 2021

The movie could probably be shorter, but I didn't wish it so.

| Jan 13, 2021

Like many a classic screen epic, Out of Africa is long, romantic, beautiful, and slightly boring.

| Jan 12, 2021

The film makers' greatest failing is that they have taken inherently interesting characters and given us a film that is a crashing bore.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2021

There comes a time in movie addicts' lives when their souls cry out for the kind of film that can fill the screen with magnificent vistas, grand passions and charismatic actors. That's why the arrival of Out of Africa is cause for cheering.

| Jan 12, 2021

Director Sydney Pollack has filmed some lovely and exciting animal/survival footage, and writer Kurt Luedtke has given Streep and Redford the most literate of dialogue to read.

| Jan 12, 2021

Surprise! A movie I thought I'd hate has turned out to be one of the smartest, most enjoyable big-screen romances in years.

| Jan 12, 2021

Out of Africa is a stunner, a freak, a rarity, a miracle. It's a genuine movie for grown-ups that's moving, sweet and deeply romantic.

| Jan 12, 2021

The most-remembered moments of Out of Africa are the travelogue sequences, which is not what the book or the author are all about.

| Jan 12, 2021