A River Runs Through It

He presents fly fishing as a concrete, cleansing experience, and Redford, in the films highly pleasing riverbank sequences, captures that quiet sense of spiritual joy. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

Redford and his writer, Richard Friedenberg, understand that most of the events in any life are accidential or arbitrary, especially the crucial ones, and we can exercise little conscious control over our destinies. ( Read More )

Leave your preconceptions about fishing at the door: youll be caught hook, line and sinker. ( Read More )

Desson Thomson

It doesnt hurt matters that the storys set in one of the worlds most beautiful corners rendered in pre twilight glows by cinematographer Philippe Rousselot. ( Read More )

David Ansen

Redford does an honorable job emulating the authors unsentimental, laconically witty style. A River Runs Through It is made with reverence and taste, but it only fitfully comes fully alive as a film. ( Read More )