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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThis is a love letter from one auteur to another that doesn't feel like a term paper. Instead, Far From Heaven is an honest-to-God drama with resonance all its own.
- 100SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirA movie for hardcore film geeks and regular folk alike, a stunning, and stunningly improbable, fusion of postmodern pastiche and old-school Hollywood melodrama. It's both a marvelous technical accomplishment and a tragic love story that sweeps you off your feet.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBold and brilliant.
- 90Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA supremely intelligent pastiche.
- 90TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelIronizes without parodying an antique screen manner, then reaches out from beneath this smooth cover to grab us.
- 90Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonThree sterling performances from Moore, Haysbert and Quaid, all of whom grapple with psychic pain in different, touching ways.
- 80TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxHaynes took an enormous risk here, but thanks to his thoughtful script and an utterly sincere performance from Moore, what could have easily become a cold, calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIf it's ultimately a failure -- and I think it is -- it's still worth seeing, because it's the most ambitious and magnificent failure in recent memory. That, in a sense, qualifies it as a certain kind of "good movie."
- 75USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkGlossy or not, the movie is unflinchingly tough-minded, down to its Hollywood-weepy ending, which, if you think about it, may be the year's gloomiest.
- 70Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternYet dramatic energy is in short supply. The actors move about this elaborate movie museum in a modified dream state, as if living in the present while rooted in the past. But the strategy doesn't work. It's an imitation of lifelessness.