Career-best performances by Moore and Quaid. Should have won them both Oscars. Absolutely gorgeous use of color, as well.

A well-crafted woman's picture in the Douglas Sirk tradition. Juliane Moore is very good, and Dennis Quaid is excellent as her closet-case of a husband.

For the cinematography alone, it's worth a blind-buy, but there's so much more to this update on Douglas Sirk's subtly subversive melodramas of the 50's.

In the 50s every white person was a collossal racist with a singular exception. I have serious problems with this movie's content; it is just far too simplistic for a movie that wants to be taken as a serious study of a society. Yea, yea, it's a homage to Sirk or whatever - a film should be able to stand up on its own as entertaining before it begins requiring the viewer to see other movies.

It is quite effective in its portrayal of the 1950's, but the film as a whole is quite hollow. It's quite difficult to really sink yourself into the picture, despite the strong performance by Julianne Moore.

Todd Haynes has no doubt expertly captured the feel of the 50s in this glorious, hip and ironic Romance. Great, great movie that doesn't have a hint of failure or depression.

While the presentation is attractive and subject matter thought provoking, I found it difficult to connect with the characters in the slightest. This disconnection kills any lasting emotional impact and renders the experience unsatisfying.

I've never seen worse over acting! I can't believe this got nominated for an academy award! This is the worst acting I've seen in a major film.

Excellent portrayal of life in the 50s with a perfect script. Near perfection. I still think Haysbert was a little off, but whatever. Film makes up for it.

Maybe I missed something, but I hate this film. As a Sirk homage it's OK. But morally the film is reprehensible: in its self-referential homage it distances itself from its characters; there's no love felt for any of them. Therefore there's little reason to care for their foibles, and the decisions they make have no basis in realism. Sirk loved all his characters, and he was deconstructing WASPy American suburbia long before this film decided to bludgeon you over the head with it.