Out of Africa

  • 1985


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Positive Reviews 48
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Average Rating 3.4/5
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1.5
The beauty of Out of Africa, From the very opening shots, is rhapsodic and illustrative rather than dramatic. This large scale adaptation of Isak Dine .. Out Magazine
5.0
It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology. Rogerebert
3.5
Maybe the problem of the pacing is simply the nature of the beast these days with expensive period pieces. Once the difficult details are all in place .. Variety
1.5
For all that it may come out of Africa, the films final destination is not many miles from Disneyland. Time Out
1.5
But these two mighty and evenly matched stars equal in size, shape and screen presence dont steam.
1.5
The movies just another piece of sentimental anti imperialism, Hollywood style.
4.5
A sumptuous romantic drama, Out of Africa spans continents and partners in while relating the tale of how Karen Blixen grew to become the world famous ..
4.0
The creative process that dramatically boring wild beast remains safely chained up, off screen. The New York Times
3.0
It just seems like it did, especially as Sydney Pollacks sturdy but turgid epic soaked up all the major Oscar categories apart from the acting categor ..
4.0
In the end it is Malick Bowens simple eloquence as Blixens devoted Somali servant that moves the audience and not the tragic end of Blixens strangely .. Ny Daily News
5.0
A lyrical and meditative movie about a strong willed woman and the place she loves. Spirituality And Practice
2.0
But it seemingly has the right kind of technical polish to impress the Academy folks, and should appeal to those who yearn for the old fashioned star .. Sover
3.8
The Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay citations remain among the least celebrated in the Academy Awards long history. ReelViews
2.5
The movie is not drama and far from a compelling romance. Needless to say, the prestige and technical polish on display here were enough to win this f .. Tv Guide
4.0
What the movie loses in emotional realism, it gains in sheer epic audacity. Radio Times
2.5
But the ponderous pace and relentless pictorialism of the film attenuate its feelings. Cs Monitor
4.5
Just as T.E. Lawrences tale could only have happened in the Middle Eastern deserts of the Great War, Isak Dinesens would not exist without the gorgeou ..
3.0
Somehow this epic biography about a relatively unknown author, at least to modern American audiences, became both a critical and commercial success, p .. Emanuellevy
5.0
He appears first as a silhouette on the African horizon, the dying sun behind him, the very emblem of romantic heroism, standing easy in a lost world. Time
3.0
Despite its technical assurance and some strong performances, this is a film that favours spectacular landscapes over emotional depth. Total Film
1.5
Fantastic acting or not... seven Oscars or not... I was bored. And I cant get past that. 7M Pictures
4.5
Its a marriage of convenience so that she doesnt have to be alone and so that he doesnt have to be penniless.
4.0
Works well as a stepping stone between Lawrence of Arabia and The English Patient, if you can ignore the awful bluescreening. Contact Music
4.5
As the Academy found before awarding it seven Oscars, it is easy to be seduced by the lush cinematography and Barrys score. More difficult to tolerate .. Film 4
2.5
Streep may convince us utterly that she is in love with Africa, but our views of it are a little too stately to really feel the place. La Times
2.0
Hell, I would have rather seen Fletch take out the top prize than this overwrought romance. Streaming Quickflix
4.5
Sydney Pollack applies craftsmanship and restraint to a classic plot curve of longing, fulfillment, and loss, and although the denouement is a bit ove .. Chicago Reader
4.4
A genre flick like this cant avoid all the cliches, but it manages to sidestep some of the biggest ones; at any rate, its the little moments that make .. Clclt
5.0
Her bearing and movement are simply noble.It is beautiful acting. New Republic
3.1
Its a shame to have to knock the otherwise beautiful and haunting picture, but when youre watching a love story and you cant stand the character who i .. Articles Chicago Tribune
4.0
If youve struggled with Meryl Streep through Still of the Night, Falling in Love and Plenty, youll probably be especially pleased with her wonderful p .. Articles Orlando Sentinel
1.5
The narrative plods when it should soar.The tone of the movie is reverential to the point of being staid. Articles Sun Sentinel
1.5
Beautiful in an illustrative and rhapsodic, rather than dramatic, way, this large scale adaptation of Isak Dinesens famous 1937 memoir never works up .. OutWeek
0.5
We (the audience) wish at several paints during 2 1/2 hours of watching Blixen s book vaporise into Love Story Goes To Kenya to be free of the movie. .. OutWeek
4.5
Redford is romantic, mysterious, uncageable; and he potently complements Meryl Streeps Blixen. OutWeek
1.5
Despite that, Out of Africa is an intelligent and highly watchable film. Maclean's Magazine
4.5
Like many a classic screen epic, Out of Africa is long, romantic, beautiful, and slightly boring. Associated Press
4.5
There comes a time in movie addicts lives when their souls cry out for the kind of film that can fill the screen with magnificent vistas, grand passio .. Associated Press
4.5
They are more at home in a cheerful and witty expos like White Mischief, James Foxs book about Joss Errolls murder. Ny Books
1.5
Streep may convince us utterly that she is in love with Africa, but our views of it are a little too stately to really feel the place. Cincinnati Enquirer
1.5
Though it has many engaging moments (mostly in its first 40 minutes, out of 150), producer/director Sydney Pollacks attempt to dramatize Isak Dinesens .. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Sydney Pollacks glorious and stirring Out of Africa is a big screen epic in the very best sense. Cincinnati Enquirer
1.5
The most remembered moments of Out of Africa are the travelogue sequences, which is not what the book or the author are all about. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Out of Africa is a stunner, a freak, a rarity, a miracle. Its a genuine movie for grown ups thats moving, sweet and deeply romantic. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Surprise! A movie I thought Id hate has turned out to be one of the smartest, most enjoyable big screen romances in years. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
The scale of its protagonists obsessiveness is what gives Out of Africa its splendor. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.0
The relationship of Karen and Denys is a prickly and, despite the era in which it is set, curiously modern one. Its also at the heart of this understa .. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Pollack deserves a good part of the praise for this superb project. From seeing the potential in Dinesens story in the first place, to bringing it to .. Cincinnati Enquirer
3.1
Out of Africa has the sheen of artsiness and the gloss of two big name actors. Unfortunately, thats not quite enough in the absence of a story with vi .. Cincinnati Enquirer
3.1
My basic problem with this otherwise sumptuous and well acted film is that I never was able to accept Redford in character. Cincinnati Enquirer
1.5
Considering the wealth of writings by Isak Dinesen and others that its makers had to draw on, this lumbering, $30 million prestige picture is astonish .. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
The scenes between Streep and Redford have a certain quality to them, a recognizable essence, I suppose, that boasts both a maturity and an honesty. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Director Sydney Pollack has filmed some lovely and exciting animal/survival footage, and writer Kurt Luedtke has given Streep and Redford the most lit .. Cincinnati Enquirer
1.5
The film makers greatest failing is that they have taken inherently interesting characters and given us a film that is a crashing bore. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Out of Africa features Meryl Streep in a tour de force performance. She disappears into the character of Karen Blixen, speaking with a Danish accent t .. Cincinnati Enquirer
2.0
The movie is a beauty to look at and has been staged and assembled with loving care by its director, Sydney Pollack, who has yet to make an unattracti .. Cincinnati Enquirer
3.1
The genuine worth of Out of Africa will rest on whether it inspires viewers to seek out the books of Isak Dinesen. The films fidelity to these hauntin .. Cincinnati Enquirer
1.5
The book and its characters are simply not translatable to the screen, and what we get is a sufferable alternative. Cincinnati Enquirer
1.5
A mushy, unduly protracted cross between a glossy Fitzpatrick Traveltalk on Kenya, Land of Contrasts and one of those pre war Hollywood colonial melod .. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.0
It is a brilliant film, rich with verdant landscapes and the aura of grandeur. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
In sum, Out of Africa is great film making in the best tradition of Hollywood romance. Its a stunning and immensely satisfying 150 minutes in a theate .. Cincinnati Enquirer
3.8
We get to care a little about the romance between Denys and Karen but you get an even stronger sense of the poignancy of the love affair thats develop .. Cincinnati Enquirer
2.5
Out of Africa abounds in class. But for all its beauties, this intimate epic is no classic. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Director Sydney Pollack and Redford screenwriter Kurt Luedtke... have made an intelligent, beautiful, thoughtful film with enormous respect for its au .. Cincinnati Enquirer
3.0
The result of Pollacks approach Is a distancing between the viewer and the movie. This is not the kind of film that reaches out and envelops you; its .. Cincinnati Enquirer
1.5
Out of Africa may remind you of inheriting a wonderful piece of Victorian bric a brac from a beloved but long lost great aunt. Its absolutely beautifu .. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
elegant, sweepingly romantic 214 hour movie starring an incandescent Meryl Streep as Dinesen and an equally golden Robert Redford as Finch Hatton. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
Whats missing in.this respectful and often quite moving epic is a sense of Dinesen the storyteller. Cincinnati Enquirer
5.0
You get the feeling director Sydney Pollack was relentless in his determination to make every frame of this 2 1/2 hour movie a loving tribute to Isak .. Cincinnati Enquirer
4.5
As far as romance goes, Out of Africa runs the full gamut of archetypal themes. While it often induces a yawn, it is gorgeous to look at. Awards Daily
4.5
Redfords is only a supporting role, but when he and Streep start mooning over each other, youll be hard put to recall the last time you felt this much .. Baltimore Afro-American
4.5
Quite simply, there just arent enough superlatives to describe the magnificent beauty in every frame of this picture. Baltimore Afro-American



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