Editing One True Thing (section)

=== Critical response ===
''One True Thing'' received mostly favorable reviews from critics, with Streep being the subject of acclaim for bringing warmth and natural energy instead of appearing cold and technical. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has a rating of 87% based on reviews from 61 critics. The site's consensus states: "Solid performances lift this drama to a higher level."<ref name="tomatoes">{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_true_thing/ |title=One True Thing (1998)|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=26 June 2024}}</ref> The similar site [[Metacritic]] grades it 63 out of 100 based on reviews from 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/one-true-thing |title=One True Thing reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade "A" on a scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= ONE TRUE THING (1998) A |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref>

Todd McCarthy of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it "sensitively written, fluidly directed and expertly acted."<ref name="McCarthy">{{cite news |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117477816 |title=One True Thing |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |date=7 September 1998 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=1 January 2021 }}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]], reviewing the film for the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', commended it for rising above the level of a [[Soap opera|soap]] through pure craftsmanship, and awarded the film three stars out of four.<ref name="Ebert">{{cite news|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/one-true-thing-1998|title=One True Thing|last=Ebert|first=Roger|date=18 September 1998|work=[[The Chicago Sun Times]]|access-date=6 June 2011}}</ref>

Mick LaSalle in the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' declared, "After ''One True Thing'', critics who persist in the fiction that Streep is a cold and technical actress will need to get their heads examined. She is so instinctive and natural – so thoroughly in the moment and operating on flights of inspiration – that she's able to give us a woman who's at once wildly idiosyncratic and utterly believable."<ref name="LaSalle">{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Home-Is-a-Beautiful-Thing-Streep-shines-in-2990280.php |title=Home Is a Beautiful 'Thing' / Streep shines in drama about ailing mother|last=LaSalle|first=Mick|date=18 September 1998|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|access-date=1 Jan 2021 }}</ref> ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' film critic Kenneth Turan noted, "[Streep's role] is one of the least self-consciously dramatic and surface showy of her career, but Streep adds a level of honesty and reality that makes [her performance] one of her most moving."<ref name="Turan">{{cite news|title=One True Thing|last=Turan|first=Kenneth|date=18 September 1998|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> Among the few negative reviews, ''[[Salon.com]]''{{'}}s Andrew O'Hehir complained that the movie "really has no plot", and found director Carl Franklin unable to properly connect with his cast.<ref name="O'Hehir">{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/1998/09/18reviewa.html |title=One Blue Thing |last=O'Hehir |first=Andrew |date=18 September 1998 |work=[[Salon.com]] |access-date=6 June 2011 }}</ref>