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(1 - 6) of 6 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1   "Roland Joffe's deeply ridiculous movie is caught between rocks and hard places, from its "what were they thinking?" concept ("freely adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne") to its muddled execution."   Philadelphia City Paper   Cynthia Fuchs 2/10 "The script by Douglas Day Stewart gives new meaning to the phrase "free adaptation"."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Dragan Antulov 2/4 "Literary purists will be aghast at some of the liberties taken with the original text, but my complaints have more to do with cinematic misjudgments than with those in the book-to-screen translation."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Corny, heavy-handed, but definitely romantic, The Scarlet Letter is a mindless piece of historical amusement."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 1.5/4 "Rage, love, defiance, confusion, fear -- Moore just sticks out her chin and makes her eyes brim with tears. She's the stolidly immovable object at the film's center, and there's no getting around her."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1/4 "Love the book or hate it, but no novel deserves the shabby treatment that director Roland Joffé and screenwriter Douglas Day Stewart have given the classic novel."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina  (1 - 6) of 6 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1