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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    The key to success: The audience must really like both characters and believe that they deserve a fairy-tale ending. That's definitely the case in this nicely acted love story. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    It's unlikely that the whole cowboy town would really applaud all the queer goings-on, but it's a lovely sentiment in a lovely movie. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe |

    It's a refreshing alternative to hipper-than-thou moviemaking. Read full review

  • 70
    L.A. Weekly | Paul Malcolm

    A rosy, hearthside fantasy of acceptance that's so assured in its writing and direction, it's nearly impossible not to believe. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    An accomplished heart-tugger, a serious romantic comedy that tackles two dilemmas with honesty and compassion. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Director Bezucha's eyes are as starry as Montana's sky, but it's pretty hard to resist such a determinedly utopian vision of love. Read full review

  • 50
    Austin Chronicle | Marrit Ingman

    Yet as wonderful as it is to see a breezy, earnest romantic comedy that is so matter-of-factly gay-themed, Big Eden suffers somewhat, unsurprisingly, from some of the usual perils of a breezy, earnest romantic comedy. Read full review

  • 50
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Too cute by half (or maybe three-quarters). Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Until the plot becomes intolerably cornball, there's charm in the story. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    The movie is as flat and plain as a television program, and most of the supporting characters (including Louise Fletcher as a kindly schoolmarm) seem equally two-dimensional, as if they had wandered in from the set of "The Andy Griffith Show." Read full review

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