| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 10/10) |
| Cold Mountain is a movie that has "Oscar" written all over it yet doesn't
falter under the weighty expectations that were placed upon it as early as
last year. It's an $85 million epic (the most expensive ever produced by
Miramax) with a huge cast full...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Bob Bloom (Rating: 3/4) |
| COLD MOUNTAIN (2003) 3 stars out of 4. Starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee
Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Brendan Gleeson, Natalie Portman, Ray Winstone,
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Baker, James Gammon, Giovanni Ribisi, Eileen
Atkins and Melora...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 2.5/4) |
| As with his previous literary adaptations of Highsmith and Ondaatje,
director
Anthony Minghella spends most of his time and energies getting Charles
Frazier's
1997 bestseller "Cold Mountain" to look right. In so doing, however, he fails
to focus on...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| Directed by Anthony Minghella. Screenplay by Minghella, based on the novel
by Charles Frazier. Starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger.
Running time: 155 minutes. Rated AA for violent scenes by the MFCB.
Reviewed on January 13th, 2004. more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 6/10) |
| CAPSULE: Nicole Kidman and Jude Law play two lovers
separated by the Civil War and struggling to be
reunited. Kidman is a woman not unlike Scarlett
O'Hara who must go from being a useless peacetime
ornament to become a strong...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Ryan Ellis |
| Got insomnia? Anxious for a cure? 'Cold Mountain' awaits you and your
holiday money. For anyone looking for either a good time at the movies or an
emotional experience, go see something else. This is a 150-minute snooze.
Trouble is, fans of the pretty...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Mark O'Hara |
| Books like Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain" stay with you. My family
watched Anthony Minghella's new film last night, Christmas of 2003, and I
recalled when some of us had first read the novel. Though I believed it was
around three years ago, a...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Homer Yen (Rating: B-) |
| The tumultuous period of the mid-1860s has
wrought a dimension of brutality in the South as
the Civil War gradually reshapes the nation, our
heritage, and our culture. "The war is being
lost on the battlefield, but twice over by those
who stay behind."...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Matt Noller (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| Cold Mountain is a rather unconventional film, a love story in which the
romance between the two main characters hardly seems like the point. When
the two are finally reunited, we're happy for them, but the destination of
the trip is less important (and...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Richard A. Zwelling (Rating: 2.5/4) |
| Cold Mountain is based on the best-selling novel by Charles Frazier
and provides for a visually compelling film with some powerful
individual scenes, but a considerable lack of thematic coherence,
engaging characterization, and genuinely involving...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 4/5) |
| I fully admit, I probably would not have seen this movie at all if I
had noticed/remembered that it was an Anthony Minghella film. I find
his filmmaking ponderous and self-aggrandizing, and I can't even
explain why. Some of Cold Mountain had the...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B) |
| Reviewed by: Harvey S. Karten
Grade: B
Miramax Films
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Written by: Anthony Minghella, book by Charles Frazier
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Natalie
Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi,...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 9/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "Cold Mountain" (Miramax Films)
Evoking memories of "The English Patient," filmmaker Anthony Minghella
once again explores love amidst the perils of war, this time adapting Charles
Frazier's 1997 best-seller.
Set in...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 7/10) |
| PLOT:
It's 1864 and the civil war is on. A local guy enlists to fight for the south,
but not before making googly-eyes with a local hottie who likes wearing long
skirts and bonnets (are you as turned on as I am?) The two kiss for the first
time a minute...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
| Two gorgeous actors with zero on-screen chemistry, Jude Law and Nicole Kidman
star in this year's big Christmas release, COLD MOUNTAIN. Based on a Charles
Frazier novel, it is written and directed by Anthony Minghella, who garnered a
writing nomination...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: C+) |
| Bred for a cultural urban life, Ada Munroe (Nicole Kidman, "The Human
Stain") is called by her father, the Reverend Munroe (Donald Sutherland,
"The Italian Job") to his North Carolina farm just before the advent of the
Civil War. Coaxed by neighbor...more |
| Cold Mountain Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: B-) |
| The town of Cold Mountain, North Carolina is seething
with rebellious glee, in 1861, when the Confederate
States of America declare war on the anti-slavery
Union. This historic moment, the object of joy for
most, causes nothing but pain for P.W. Inman...more |
