The Washington Post, March 24th, 1995
You don't have to strain to see that "Dolores Claiborne," Taylor Hackford's film version of the Stephen King novel, has a whopping list of shortcomings -- and yet it still manages to be an engrossing, unsettling and, at times, powerful psychological thriller. The details of this tense drama about spouse abuse, child abuse, alcoholism and murder seem to have been lifted not from life but from a social worker's all-purpose profile of domestic victimization. With its muted tones and measured, astringent style, it has the look and feel of a European art house product, but it has more in common wit...
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