One from the Heart 1982

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A bold experiment in style and technique that doesn't work. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: There's not a moment in One From the Heart when Mr. Coppola isn't after something romantic and glorious, something inexpressibly grand. At times, he even gets what he's after. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Underwritten and overdirected. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: It isn't very good, but at least the highly touted technology is put firmly in the service of the (sometimes painfully sincere) emotions that Francis Ford Coppola wants to communicate, which is more than you can say for Apocalypse Now. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: It still feels like an exercise, but it's a beautiful one. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: An interesting production but not a good movie. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: An integral piece of the oeuvre of one of America's great directors. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: An ambitious misfire by a brilliant filmmaker. Read more

Kevin Jackson, Time Out: At times the project seems in danger of being scuppered by its own lavishness; the saving grace is a light heart. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A hybrid musical romantic fantasy, lavishing giddy heights of visual imagination and technical brilliance onto a wafer-thin story of true love turned sour, then sweet. Read more