Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
There's also a rather awesome and unpretentious directness as well as calmness about the way that Huston contemplates his own rapidly approaching death.
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Variety Staff, Variety
A well-crafted miniature, this dramatization of the Joyce story directly addresses the theme of how the 'shades' from 'that other world' can still live in those who still walk the earth.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
That Huston should have dared search for the story's cinema life is astonishing. That he should have found it with such seeming ease is the mark of a master.
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
There's a certain disarming sweetness to the film. The scenes are lit in amber warmth and Joyce's Dublin fable of lost hopes and living memories is treated with respect. But the acting pool is only adequate.
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Hal Hinson, Washington Post
The movie was Huston's last and it's a great culminating work. As such, it couldn't be more perfect.
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Anjelica Hustonas Gretta Conroy -
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