This is Streisand’s movie, and Nolte’s Tom functions as both her subject and her muse.

| May 5, 2024

Despite its pitfalls, Barbara Streisand has enormous talent. But unconditionally adoring her film requires adoring her even more than she already does. And that is immeasurably impossible [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 5, 2023

The Prince of Tides remains important as the wellspring of a woman director/star who held her ground against the boys club of the Hollywood system and ultimately came out on top.

| Nov 24, 2020

Barbra Streisand critics like to harp on her narcissism, but there's no questioning her overwhelming generosity on this project. The movie completely belongs to Nick Nolte, who delivers a career-best performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 5, 2020

The main problem with Prince of Tides, however, is not the acting or the direction, but the source material... it reeks of bad novel.

| Jul 24, 2018

Directed with loving care by Barbra Streisand, this adaptation of the best-seller also boasts a serious flaw: Streisand herself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2012

Graced with fine performances and commendably biting off more than it can ever hope to chew, The Prince Of Tides is a rare slice of romantic moviemaking for all those grown-ups feeling ignored since Kramer Vs. Kramer last rattled their value systems.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2012

Self-indulgent, soap opera nonsense.

| Feb 3, 2012

The results may seem overripe and dated in spots, but she coaxes a fine performance out of Nolte, and the other actors (herself included) acquit themselves honorably.

| Feb 3, 2012

A deeply moving exploration of the tangled emotions of a dysfunctional Southern family, this lovingly crafted (though unevenly scripted) film of Pat Conroy's novel centers on Nick Nolte's performance of a lifetime.

| Oct 18, 2008

As director, Streisand shows compassion for Pat Controy's Southern Gothic novel, and the film works better as a study of troubled childhood and male menopause than as romance between psychiatrist (poorly played by Streisand) and Nick Nolte as her patient

| Original Score: B | Mar 28, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2008

They do make 'em like it any more.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2005

The Prince of Tides marks Ms. Streisand's triumphantly good job of locating that story's salient elements and making them come alive on the screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2004