The film shimmers with grace and visual beauty.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 11, 2023

Redford directs with a fluid grace... to capture the idyllic, light-drenched aura of Maclean's early childhood memories. Even the seemingly unexciting fly-fishing sequences take on a magical air worthy of Spielberg.

| Oct 10, 2018

The film is blighted by an inability to break free from its source.

| Jul 24, 2018

Redford's heartfelt yet unfulfilled film feels more watered-down than haunting.

| May 29, 2018

Redford remains a fine director of actors. With Brad Pitt, who gives a particularly good performance, he is dealing moreover with an actor whose handsomeness is reminiscent of his own at that age.

| Nov 15, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Moving, powerful movie of two brothers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2010

Redford does an honorable job emulating the author's unsentimental, laconically witty style. A River Runs Through It is made with reverence and taste, but it only fitfully comes fully alive as a film.

| Jul 7, 2010

Sherritt has been in a lot of movies, but the role of Rev. Maclean seems like one he was born to play. He owns it, the way that Pitt and Sheffer own theirs, and as a result it takes no time at all to believe this group as a family and become involved.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 14, 2009

There is too much taste, discretion and detachment in Redford's rendition of MacLean's sprawling family saga, but the scenery and Brad Pitt are nice to look at due to Philippe Rousselot's gorgeous Oscar-winning cinematography.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 24, 2008

Although heart-throb Pitt steals the film to some extent, veteran actor Skerritt scores highly with his outstanding and heartfelt portrait of the watchful father.

| Nov 8, 2007

A skilled, careful adaptation of a much-admired story.

| Nov 8, 2007

Even set against the Sierra Club beauty of Redford's Montana, it's hard to get excited by fisherman casting their lines into the water.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 8, 2007

This may work for you if you settle at the outset for a nostalgic, all-American mood piece.

| Nov 8, 2007

A great movie to watch with the family at Christmas.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2006

Leave your preconceptions about fishing at the door: you'll be caught hook, line and sinker.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2005

A specialist in bringing books to life as movies, Redford has a knack for finding what matters in the text and making sure it ends up on screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2005