A distended, talky, redundant and moody melodrama.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 May 2008
rotten:
A for effort; C for execution.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
26 May 2008
fresh:
It's easy to forgive the movie a lot because of Streisand. She's fantastic.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
With the script glossing whole areas of confrontation (from the communist '30s to the McCarthy witch-hunts), it often passes into the haze of a nostalgic fashion parade.