Desert Hearts
Samuel Goldwyn Company, The | Release Date: March 7, 1986 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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60
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Desert Hearts has no voice or style of its own. It's as flat as a recorded message from the telephone company. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Helen Shaver, playing the lead, does a most commendable job as a character who starts by being all tied up inside, and ends up by melting and opening up to emotions she couldn’t even conceive before. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheila Benson
For a story about sexual awakening and discovery, Desert Hearts is a taut, fatally careful movie with no looseness--and no abandon--to it and no feeling for detail that would let these characters really live.
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The movie seems sincere in wanting to explore rather than exploit its subject, but any potential insights are cut off by too-obvious characterizations and plot twists. [04 Apr 1986, p.23]
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