60
Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleBride Flight gives a panoramic sweep of lives as they're lived, as there is a lot of beauty in it.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickThe kind of lush, epic romantic weepie that Hollywood used to deliver on a regular basis for packed matinees at Radio City Music Hall.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe flashbacks dominate, playing like wet-inked storyboards: pioneer women forced into patriarch games; a baby born in secrecy and raised in deceit; Jewish legacy lost and found. When the men are all dead, the women speak freely, wrapping up two florid hours with a pickled sentence or two.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenBest enjoyed as a lavish period travelogue whose story is dwarfed by its panoramic overview.
- 67Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerSwitching between the 1950s, the '60s, and the present, it's compelling in a middling miniseries kind of way – expansive but not terribly deep.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe plotlines are clichéd and the score overbearing, but uniformly strong turns go a long way towards shaping the lush, nostalgic atmosphere. Don't forget to bring tissues.
- 50Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerIt's all very tastefully handled by Ben Sombogaart, shot in plenty of staid compositions whose denuded color scheme suggests a historical remove, but it rarely generates any heat, even during a pair of graphic, but not particularly erotic sex scenes.
- 50The A.V. ClubSam AdamsThe A.V. ClubSam AdamsThe subtitles and period setting conjure a smattering of respectability, but in essence, this is arthouse pap, particularly for older audiences, turning the past into a concatenation of worn-out tropes that comforts as it distorts. Think of it as instant mashed potatoes for the soul.