A much tougher movie than it might first appear from the gauzy, nostalgic trappings, dealing frankly with matters of sexual abuse and the means by which society empowers frightened men to inflict their wills upon women they find intimidating.

| Mar 28, 2024

Rambling Rose, make no mistake, is absolutely a challenging film. An individual viewer’s reaction, depending on experience and sensitivity, might be quite different.

| Feb 27, 2024

A film of incongruous luminosity and sweetness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 4, 2023

The intimate rhythms these two superb actors work up together capture a lifetime of marriage. Duvall and Ladd are the true heart and soul of Rambling Rose.

| Feb 7, 2018

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Seen in a flashback through the eyes of an adolescent, this uncommon coming-of-age tale, which raises poignant questions about the mysteries of sex and love, flaunts a superb performance from Laura Dern as the promiscuous girl

| Original Score: B | Oct 31, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003

A quirky, funny but moving story with terrific performances all around.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2002

Probes the mixture of fear and awe many men experience when they meet the life-force of women.

| May 8, 2002

A modest but pleasingly adult entertainment at a time when even the most promising American films ultimately revert to Pollyannaish platitudes.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2002

It's a beauty.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

[A] funny, moving, spectacularly acted little film.

| Jan 1, 2000

The movie is all character and situation, and contains some of the best performances of the year, especially in the ensemble acting of the four main characters.

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

So much here is rich and touching, not to mention the string of superb performances, that the film still merits a recommendation.

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

Willingham, who also scripted Paths of Glory, Little Big Man and The Graduate, wrote Rose in the early 1970s. Thanks to these sterling performances almost two decades later, his screenplay enjoys a fresh and tender blossoming.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 6/8 | Jan 1, 2000

A touching, humorous and enjoyable film.

Full Review | Original Score: 80/100 | Jan 1, 2000