Editing Map of the Human Heart (section)

===Critical response===
''Map of the Human Heart'' has an almost even rank between critics and audience at [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], indicating that the film is liked by both parties. The site's ranking shows that 23 critics approve the film at 78%, with an average ranking stands at 6.8/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/map_of_the_human_heart|title=Map of the Human Heart (1993)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Flixster]]|accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], basing on 18 critics, the film holds a 71 out of a 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/map-of-the-human-heart/details|title=Map of the Human Heart|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref>

''Map of the Human Heart'' was critically well received by many film critics. [[Roger Ebert]] noted: "''Map of the Human Heart'' tells a soaring story of human adventure – adventure of the best kind, based not on violence, but on an amazing personal journey. It is incredible sometimes what distances can be traveled in a single human life, and this is a movie about a man who could not have imagined his end in his beginning."<ref>[[Roger Ebert|Ebert, Roger]]. [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/map-of-the-human-heart-1993 "Review: 'Map of the Human Heart'."] ''[[RogerEbert.com]]'', 14 May 1993. Retrieved: 23 December 2015.</ref>

Brian Case in the 2004 ''Time Out Film Guide'', said: "Ward's ambitious epic love story covers two continents and three decades and, its execution apart, could have sprung from one of those fat romantic chronicles written for the typing pool. But Ward has an extravagant visual imagination so that even the more outlandish scenes, like the hero and heroine finally consummating their passion on a half-deflated barrage balloon, linger in the mind. Where lack of money cramps his vision of WWII bombing raids on Germany, the director achieves a pleasing shorthand with lighting."<ref>Case, Brian. [https://www.timeout.com/london/film/map-of-the-human-heart "Review: 'Map of the Human Heart'."] ''Time Out Film Guide''. Retrieved 12 July 2021.</ref><ref>Pin 2004, pp. 744–745.</ref>

Hal Hinson of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' said that the film is of "incantatory intensity".<ref>{{cite news|last=Hinson|first=Hal|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mapofthehumanheartpg13hinson_a0a818.htm|title='Map of the Human Heart' (PG-13)|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=14 May 1993|accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref>