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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie.
- 90The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThanks in large part to Miss Streep's bravura performance, it's a film that casts a powerful, uninterrupted spell.
- 75Boston GlobeBoston GlobeAlan Pakula's literal adaptation of William Styron's Sophie's Choice is an admirable, if reverential, movie that crams this triangle into a 2 1/2 -hour character study enriched by Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, and nearly destroyed by Peter MacNicol. [21 Jan 1983]
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe overall result is a serious though harrowing journey into the dark corners of this century, marked by a compassionate approach and even a fillip of optimism at the end.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe film is a respectable, claustrophobic and slick piece of work, and cinematographer Nestor Almendros' color strategies - Rembrandt-like light at night, lemony tones during the day, desaturated sepia at Auschwitz - are arty to a fault. [14 Dec 1982]
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineCompetently directed by Pakula and featuring gorgeous cinematography by Almendros, Sophie's Choice is an overlong, fairly schlocky film that takes itself very seriously.
- 70The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsAlan J. Pakula’s 1982 adaptation of William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice is one of those films whose great qualities put its lesser elements in sharp relief.
- 60VarietyVarietySophie's Choice is a handsome, doggedly faithful and astoundingly tedious adaptation of William Styron's best-seller.
- 20Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe picture is completely devoid of cinematic interest, adopting instead a tiresome theatrical aesthetic in which showy monologues are filmed in interminable, usually ill-chosen long takes.