CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - AccessAtlanta

John Anderson - Newsday

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Mike Clark - USA Today

Lou Lumenick - NY Post

Ed Blank - Pittsburgh Live

Kirk Honeycutt - Hollywood Reporter

Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Josh Bell - Las Vegas Weekly

Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune

Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com

Rob Blackwelder - SPLICEDwire

Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central

DUELING CRITICS

"[A] breathtaking film...Easily the most romantic movie of the year, Cold Mountain is also one of the best...One of the most intelligent and caring book-to-screen transitions ever made...This movie's course is true"

- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

"A tarted-up march to the awards-night podium...Lavish, lugubrious, and off-target ...Everything about the film is careful artifice, from its casting to its grandiloquent direction to its half-baked dialogue"

- Walter Chaw