This one just gets better with repeated viewing.

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 1999)

When Dr. Zhivago was originally issued I had the privilege of seeing it in an elegant, wide-screen theater, as it was intended to be shown. All in all, I didn't like it a bit. I found the acting unconvincing, and was particularly annoyed with Omar Sharif's wide-eyed moping about. Subsequently, I read the original novel and, in retrospect, was impressed with how well Bolt and Lean had succeeded in distilling the emotional impact and underlying meaning of the epic story. A few months later I went to see it again. To my amazement, many of the things that annoyed me initially seemed absolutely right -- from the sometimes jarring sound track to Sharif's moist and helpless gaze. After many viewings Zhivago now seems to me one of the greatest films