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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Demonstrates the catastrophe of disintegration by putting us first in the full thrall of the character's intellect. Read more
Jay Carr, Boston Globe: Iris glows with rightness and convinces us we're sharing its characters' understanding that when the books and the memory go, love can remain. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Iris sounds as if it would be painful to watch, and in scenes like the one described above, it can be. Yet watching love realistically depicted onscreen remains the greatest joy of film, and its most important gift to the world. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: A magnificent story about the enduring bond between two eccentric, astounding souls who somehow managed to find each other and hold on for dear life. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I think this movie does a wonderful job of going back and forth. We see Kate Winslet, who does a terrific job. Judi Dench is excellent. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ...intrigues and devastates. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Tune out the hype for countless other movies. This is the one to see. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: A must-see canticle to married love. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Rarely does a movie feel as leaden-footed as Iris, especially when it tries to bounce back and forth. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Judi Dench and Kate Winslet ... [give] terrific performances as Murdoch's older and younger selves, albeit in severely undernourished parts. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's an exemplary lesson in Acting 101, taught by Judi Dench (Iris) and Jim Broadbent (John Bayley, her loyal husband of 40 years). Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's not only that Murdoch and Bayley had just that kind of kinship over the span of a 40-plus year marriage, it's that the actors manage an identically close and intimate relationship both to each other and to the characters they play. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: As the story of heroic response to tragic illness, Iris is the kind of film often cynically pegged a 'disease of the week' movie. But unlike such formulaic TV productions, Iris' heroine is denied the capacity to be inspiring. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: ...the results are tender, unflinching, raw and wonderful. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: The performances in Iris -- by Judi Dench as the older Murdoch and Jim Broadbent as her husband, John Bayley, and by Kate Winslet as the younger Murdoch -- are so good that the film is completely compelling. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: All the players (including Hugh Bonneville as the student Bayley) are ardent, all the camera work thoughtful. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: For a movie whose subject is the decline and fall of a towering intellect, there's precious little to think about here. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Murdoch and Bayley had to have been one of the oddest couples in the world -- and one of the most enchanting. Read more
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Rex Reed, New York Observer: Intimate, frank and shattering without being maudlin or sudsy. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Kate Winslet as the younger Iris Murdoch and Judi Dench as the older version manage to bring the literary lioness to vibrant life. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Those who have had a loved one fall prey to the mental ravages of Alzheimer's will see in Iris a depiction that is so lucid and accurate that it may be painful to observe. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Because the film is well-acted and written with intelligence, it might be worth seeing, despite my objections. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Dench and Broadbent in their scenes together are a painful and loving duet, creating as moving a portrait of marriage as anything the movies have afforded in recent memory. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: The performances are the raison d'etre... Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The impoverished story keeps Iris from achieving greatness, but no qualifiers are needed for the acting. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Despite the sad denouement, it's still the love story of the year. Read more
Joy Press, Village Voice: It leaves out huge gaps of Murdoch's life -- the whole center of it really, when she published all of her important books. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema. Read more