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The Iris Soundtrack. According to Tracksounds James Horner's Iris is a "must have" and you will find it an "irresistible treat to play over and over".

The Iris Soundtrack

'Elegy for Iris' by John Bayley. This book featuring the Iris movie poster is available for a limitted time only making it "great for collecting".

'Elegy for Iris' Movie Poster Edition

Iris movie reviews abound on this page. We have collected the best reviews for you to peruse at your pleasure. We hope you enjoy the highlights of selected reviews which represent some of the positive buzz generated for Iris, and it's stars Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, and Jim Broadbent. Enjoy!

USA Today - "As the brilliant and forthright Oxford student, Kate Winslet plays the young Iris with confidence and a lust for life."

Newsday - "Judi Dench and Kate Winslet are wonderful as Murdoch, but Jim Broadbent steals what is an ultimately anemic movie."

New York Daily - "The result is a portrait of an amicably offbeat marriage and a true and rewarding inquiry into the nature of love."

New York Post - "The zaftig Kate Winslet cuts quite a figure as the young Iris at Oxford, though the film doesn't do much more than skim Murdoch's bisexuality or left-leaning politics."

New York Times - "Ms. Dench and Mr. Broadbent have a jabbing, likable rhythm; his effortless submersion into character is an enjoyable contrast to her willfulness, and her relationship with him makes her seem human. So when he gets to unleash the hurt and resentfulness that come from all of the years together and she is so damaged by Alzheimer's that she cannot respond, 'Iris' can't help being moving."

The Cranky Critic - "... a film that delivers about as true and pure a love story as you can get, and shredded us in our seat."

Rolling Stone - "Richard Eyre has struck gold. Twice. Judi Dench and Kate Winslet are a riveting matchup."

Los Angeles Times - "It's not only that Murdoch and Bayley had just that kind of kinship over the span of a 40-plus year marriage, it's that the actors manage an identically close and intimate relationship both to each other and to the characters they play."

Salon - "It's a tribute to Kate Winslet that the vividness of her portrayal of the young Iris provides a sense of what Murdoch lost. There may be no young actress who uses her body as powerfully as Kate Winslet does. She seems here to be always trudging forward, stooped almost as if by pushing her body her mind will be commanded to catch up. Winslet mingles a sense of unshakable certainty with an intellectual restlessness that makes her seem to be always in motion, even when she's sitting still."

Salon - "It's a tribute to Kate Winslet that the vividness of her portrayal of the young Iris provides a sense of what Murdoch lost. There may be no young actress who uses her body as powerfully as Kate Winslet does. She seems here to be always trudging forward, stooped almost as if by pushing her body her mind will be commanded to catch up. Winslet mingles a sense of unshakable certainty with an intellectual restlessness that makes her seem to be always in motion, even when she's sitting still."

The Times - "The younger couple cannot really compete with this charismatic doddery pair, even though Winslet is the epitome of the blue-stocking libertine — tossing her clothes aside to swim, falling down a staircase, exposing daringly hairy armpits, intimating her own bisexuality in a sedate little café. It is all executed very nicely, but the older Iris and Bayley are by far the main event; batty as you like, but functioning well enough, with buttons missing from their cardigans, grime in their bathtub, and their beloved literature to oil the wheels."

The Irish Indepedent - "The fierce intensity and flamboyant promiscuity of Kate Winslet's young student is a perfect match for Judi Dench's understated terror as this inspired mind disintegrates uncontrollably."