Bride Flight
Music Box Films | Release Date: June 10, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 9, 2011
Bride Flight gives a panoramic sweep of lives as they're lived, as there is a lot of beauty in it. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJun 30, 2011
Bride Flight takes this melodrama and adds details of period, of behavior, of personality, to somewhat redeem its rather inevitable conclusion. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickJun 10, 2011
The kind of lush, epic romantic weepie that Hollywood used to deliver on a regular basis for packed matinees at Radio City Music Hall. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJun 9, 2011
Best enjoyed as a lavish period travelogue whose story is dwarfed by its panoramic overview. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichelle OrangeJun 7, 2011
The flashbacks dominate, playing like wet-inked storyboards: pioneer women forced into patriarch games; a baby born in secrecy and raised in deceit; Jewish legacy lost and found. When the men are all dead, the women speak freely, wrapping up two florid hours with a pickled sentence or two. Read full review
70
VarietyBoyd Van HoeijApr 25, 2011
A devil-may-care adventurer and three vastly different gals emigrate from the Low Countries to New Zealand in the romantic epic Bride Flight, a glossy European meller that switches between the '50s, the '60s and the present Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 10, 2011
Switching between the 1950s, the '60s, and the present, it's compelling in a middling miniseries kind of way – expansive but not terribly deep. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 24, 2011
A tearjerking romance that belongs to another era, when female moviegoers wanted to be transported, not grounded in grim realities. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 23, 2011
Lovely scenery and historical context elevate the sentimental story lines above the soap opera domain. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyJun 16, 2011
The beauty of the actors and the ravishing landscape of New Zealand goes a long way to make Ben Sombogaart's sudsy film so eminently watchable. Read full review
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