Terms of Endearment is the rare commercial picture that sets audiences to laughing hysterically and crying unashamedly, sometimes within consecutive seconds, and then shoos them out of the theater in contended emotional exhaustion.

| Dec 6, 2022

The picture isn't boring; it's just fraudulent.

| Aug 22, 2022

Thanks mainly to fine acting in all the major roles and most of the minor ones, "Terms" is pretty well irresistible entertainment. It turns giggles into lumps in the throat and crinkles the eyes with laughter while it is misting them with tears.

| Jul 21, 2022

Though the sudden shift into Love Story territory may have the clang of soap opera for some, it's an effective twist.

| Jul 21, 2022

Director James L. Brooks peppered the script with wry dialogue and some touching moments. But in jumping between Aurora's farce and Emma's earnest melodrama, Brooks left his other characters with neither heart nor intelligence.

| Jul 21, 2022

This is a smart, funny, emotionally devastating picture that refuses to pander to an audience by giving it merely the expected.

| Jul 21, 2022

Terms of Endearment is that uncommon kind of American movie, the kind that doesn't just manipulate our feelings, but releases them. It rates a resounding yes because it doesn't insult our emotional intelligence.

| Jul 21, 2022

The most remarkable achievement of Terms of Endearment, which is filled with great achievements, is its ability to find the balance between the funny and the sad, between moments of deep truth and other moments of high ridiculousness.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 21, 2022

Terms of Endearment is one of the few American movies of the last few years to tell a genuinely epic story of a woman.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 21, 2022

The two [tones] just do not belong to each other, and while polished acting and good use of locations are not entirely wasted, they deserve better than this.

| Jul 21, 2022

Terms of Endearment manages to be sentimental and sophisticated at the same time. Its characters and situations are wholly contemporary. Yet the film maintains a solid, old-fashioned conviction that the human heart is at least close to where it should be.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 21, 2022

MacLaine is marvelous with a graceful maturity that sets off her earlier work.

| Jul 21, 2022

Brooks, a graduate from television, has taken the sort of thing that rivets millions on the small screen and pushes it skillfully onto the large.

| Jul 21, 2022

Only the cynical who will say that this movie is "manipulative." That's true, of course, but it plays on our emotions for the right reason, because its players have established the validity of it all.

| Jul 20, 2022

In this pungent and beautifully observed film, the most completely satisfying of this and many another year, life is fascinating, tender, hilarious, catastrophic, healing, warm and, in the main, a faintly absurd predicament in which to find oneself.

| Jul 20, 2022

MacLaine captures Aurora's intensity in her best performance since The Turning Point, but the film may be best remembered for giving Winger the meatiest role of her short but wonderful career.

| Jul 20, 2022

James L. Brooks, who created The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi for television, makes a prodigious leap to the front ranks of America’s most accomplished film directors with Terms of Endearment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 20, 2022

It takes all of perhaps five minutes to fall in love with the leading characters in Terms of Endearment and from that point on, the audience is just putty in the extremely capable hands of writer-director James L. Brooks.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 20, 2022

Scene by wonderful scene, Terms of Endearment may be the most emotionally satisfying Hollywood movie this year.

| Jul 20, 2022

The film is a rarity: an observant story told with intelligence and sensibility. The script is as funny as the best of Brooks' 온라인카지노추천 work, but without that sitcom punchiness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2022