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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Doesn't sanitize its tale of African American loss and survival -- the way Steven Spielberg's “The Color Purple'' did -- but delves deeply, heartbreakingly into an American tragedy. Read full review
The film had a curious effect on me. I was sometimes confused about events as they happened, but all the pieces are there, and the film creates an emotional whole. It's more effective when it's complete than during the unfolding experience. Read full review
Has a great deal going for it. [16 October 1998, p. 57] Read full review
What is surprising -- remarkable even -- is that Beloved arrives onscreen with a minimum of dull virtue, gagging uplift and slick Hollywood gloss. Read full review
Often a cinematic marvel and often the year's most pungent movie medicine, Beloved always feels as if it's carrying the world's weight, and maybe it is. [16 October 1998, p. 7E] Read full review
Beloved is ungainly and hard to follow at times, like the proverbial giant not quite sure how to best use its strength. But that power exists, present and undeniable, and once this film gets its bearings, the unsentimental fierceness of its vision brushes obstacles and quibbles from its path. Read full review
Powerful, depressing and very, very long. At close to three hours, it virtually enslaves an audience, which may be part of the point. Read full review
Winfrey's performance is full of stoic anger, and individual moments have ferocity and pull, yet you're always aware of them as moments. Read full review
Beloved works on its own but is much enhanced by familiarity with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In so ambitiously bringing this story to the screen, Ms. Winfrey underscores a favorite, invaluable credo: read the book. Read full review
At nearly three hours, however, it rather overstays its welcome, trying the patience even as it sustains intrigue regarding its final revelations. Read full review