How Green Was My Valley maintains a 90% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes; the site's consensus write-up is, "Though it perhaps strays into overly maudlin territory, this working-class drama is saved by a solid cast and director John Ford's unmistakeable style."[REF]
While the opinion among the Academy Awards committee that it was 1941's best picture has been left behind by modern film criticism,[REF][REF] How Green Was My Valley continues to be well received in its own right, and in 1990 was added to the American National Film Registry.