Reception
Cold Mountain was met with overall positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a grade of 71% "Fresh" from critics and a 90% from the "Cream of the Crop" as well. On Metacritic, the film received a grade of 73 out of 100 points possible based on 42 generally favorable reviews.
Popular film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four possible, noting that "It evokes a backwater of the Civil War with rare beauty, and lights up with an assortment of colorful supporting characters." Richard Corliss, film critic for TIME magazine, went even further giving the film a 100 points out of 100 possible calling the film "A grand and poignant movie epic about what is lost in war and what's worth saving in life. It is also a rare blend of purity and maturity—the year's most rapturous love story."
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