Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman are extraordinary in this timely tale of marital divorce and the problematic battles of child custody.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2023

...a solid drama that benefits substantially from the top-tier efforts of its various performers...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 22, 2023

It is a film of rare emotional insight, of painful images and of questions without answers. The emotional trauma, the joys and conflicts by its two main characters, Ted and Joanna Kramer, transcend film and become shared experiences with viewers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 5, 2022

The love to be found in Kramer vs. Kramer isn't of the Hollywood variety. It's the real kind. Or at least it looks like the real kind, thanks to dynamite performances by the film's three stars.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Dustin Hoffman has never given a better performance. It is a role stripped down to the raw nerve endings, and incredible feat of winning audience sympathy.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Director Robert Benton, on only his third film, does a spectacular job of piling powerful scene upon powerful scene. The result is a succession of one-two punches that repeatedly knock the wind out of us.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

The movies have given us scores of courtroom dramas; Kramer vs. Kramer is one of the few that draw real blood.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

In writer-director Robert Benton's hands, it becomes something more: a coruscating tragedy, an agonizing search for values, and a story that's as convincing a testimony to the drama of ordinary lives as any I know.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

This is a rare and moving film about marriage, divorce, child custody, and changing sex roles. It is also a film above love.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Though the characters fall into stock categories as indicated above, they are portrayed with such sensitivity and depth by the excellent cast that they come across as thoroughly believable individuals.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Hoffman, Streep and Henry persuade you that they are "real" people in a "real" situation, and that is a rare phenomenon in contemporary movies.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Benton has directed the film with clarity and dynamism throughout, and his screenplay, adapted from Avery Corman's novel, is a model of accuracy and intelligence.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Technically, this is a cinematic tour de force, with brilliant acting, superlative writing and directing, almost perfect editing, and an unobtrusive, eminently fitting score of classical music.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep are two of the most exciting actors working in American movies. Unfortunately, here, they don't have a script that matches either their depth or range.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

In concept, in casting, but especially in execution, it is easily the year's most successful motion picture and probably one of the decade's. In assessing credit one hardly knows where to begin.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Kramer vs. Kramer never loses its low-key, realistic touch. You will sit at the end of the film wondering why we don't see more pictures like this.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 5, 2022

Kramer vs. Kramer is an oddity, a film that so truthfully reflects real life that its audience leaves the theater feeling cleansed and somehow more fully in touch with its emotions and minds.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 5, 2022

Kramer vs Kramer is a great bit of moviemaking, funny and sad and not a bit manipulative, with “Oscars” stamped all over it.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

The movie is packed with honest emotion, realistic tension and subtle humor. It's visually stunning and, perhaps more important, entirely intelligent.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022

Perfection comes in all sizes, skyscrapers to microcircuits. At its size and weight, Kramer vs. Kramer is as nearly perfect a film as can be.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2022