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Susan Stark, Detroit News: ...an intelligent, lush-looking tale... Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: What The Horse Whisperer loses in storybook romance it gains in rock-solid values and a stirringly profound respect for nature... Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This has loads of craft and honor but never quite takes off. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: That lack of identifiable passion is The Horse Whisperer's most vexing problem. Read more
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: We are not talking postmodern or even modern here, but the best kind of old-fashioned. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A film as rich in its visual presentation as it is in its emotional resonance. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: ...there is a magnificence in his treatment here that dignifies what is essentially a soap opera. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Redford seems to have fooled himself into thinking the story of The Horse Whisperer runs much deeper than it does. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: As good as Redford and Scott Thomas are at the outset, they can't convey the passion necessary to make the affair believable. Read more