Rotten
Overlength of perhaps 30 minutes serves to magnify some weaknesses of Robert Bolt's original screenplay, to dissipate the impact of the performances, and to overwhelm outstanding photography and production.
Variety Staff, Variety
Ryan's Daughter
A story of love...set against the violence of rebellion
1970 · 3h 26m · GP
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
David Lean
Overview
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Rotten
An awe-inspiringly tedious lump of soggy romanticism.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
Those who were jealous of [Lean's] previous successes decried the film as an utter failure, though of course it is not, it just isn't quite as good as his other movies.
Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
It doesn't transfigure the world. It embalms it.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
A disappointing failure of tone, a lush and overblown self-indulgence in which David Lean has given us a great deal less than meets the eye.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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