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Vincent Canby, New York Times: The Field is a movie that all too often reveals its origins as a play. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Field is a grim allegory of hard life on the land -- a symbolic play, transplanted uneasily to the greater realism of the film medium, where what we might accept on the stage now looks contrived and artificial. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Sheridan seems out in left field here, undone by the sheer hokum of the material. Read more
Eve Zibart, Washington Post: A painfully overwrought combination of A Touch of the Poet and Zorba the Greek. Read more