63
Bogs down in a deep muck of inevitability.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
First-time writer-director Paul Morrison has a gift for evoking a time and place.
63
It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically.
63
Chicago Tribune by John Petrakis
Has a melodramatic glow.
30
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
By the time the heavy-handed Solomon & Gaenor is over, it has become such a punishing exercise in the self-evident that one is left numb and eager for escape.
50
Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones
The landscape and the lovers are pretty to look at, but two households divided should really pack more of a punch.
70
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
A graceful, understated sense of period allows the behavior of the characters in this love story to be unusually nuanced, making their experiences seem uncontrived as well as archetypal.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The performances are uniformly excellent.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
With Solomon & Gaenor, it is hard to overlook the folly of the characters. Does it count as a tragedy when the characters get more or less what they were asking for?
75
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Nicely filmed and acted.