Shadowlands (1993)

"Shadowlands... is intelligent, moving and beautifully acted."

"A gratifyingly soapy love story, handsomely told."

"A moving adaptation, well directed with Winger and Hopkins playing at their very best."

"It's... a shame that, given the emphasis on the primacy of emotional experience, it feels like such a self-contained, studious exercise."

"The film’s biggest success is that it delineates Jack’s odyssey with care and precision, perhaps too much precision."

"Shadowlands is illuminated from beginning to end by Hopkins. This may be the best thing he's ever done."

"The film is especially uneasy on the subject of sex: the nuts and bolts of that would dispel its romantic haze."

"Attenborough opts for modest, unobtrusive direction that serves the material and actors."

"Shadowlands earns the (tearjerker) label honestly and may well help rehabilitate the genre by demonstrating its possibilities."