An infuriatingly bad movie.

| Sep 19, 2023

Sophie's Choice is a rare film, literate, deeply moving and gifted with an absolutely awe-inspiring performance by Meryl Streep.

| Nov 12, 2018

In other ways the film is just as unsatisfactory as the book, because it's inseparably strapped to basic flaws. The story has no center, no protagonist. To whom does the action of the novel happen?

| Jan 9, 2018

The way Streep inhabits Sophie, and brings her history to life whether she's explicitly talking about the past or carrying herself across the room with wounded grace, can't help but make parts of the rest of the film seem smaller by comparison.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 29, 2014

Astoundingly tedious.

| Jun 26, 2007

The picture is completely devoid of cinematic interest, adopting instead a tiresome theatrical aesthetic in which showy monologues are filmed in interminable, usually ill-chosen long takes.

| Jun 26, 2007

By the end, the accumulated weight and lethargy of the production fails to invest Sophie's fate with the significance Styron achieves.

| Jun 24, 2006

So perfectly cast and well-imagined that it just takes over and happens to you. It's quite an experience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Though it's far from a flawless movie, Sophie's Choice is a unified and deeply affecting one. Thanks in large part to Miss Streep's bravura performance, it's a film that casts a powerful, uninterrupted spell.

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

Heartbreakingly lovely performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2003