Tom Jones (1963)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:21
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: A frantic, irreverent adaptation of the novel, bolstered by Albert Finney's courageous performance and arresting visuals.
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic comic novel stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. TOM JONES achieved enormous critical and commercial success, benefiting... [More]
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans
Director: Tony Richardson
Reviews for Tom Jones
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If Tom Jones now feels something of a product of its times, it still deserves credit for attempting something new. Full Review |
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The ragbag of visual tricks turns a great novel into an entertaining but simple-minded romp. Full Review |
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Osborne's courageous hatchet job on Fielding's 1,000 page classic novel and Finney's gutsy performance add up to produce an enjoyable piece of irreverent entertainment. Full Review |
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The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue. Full Review |
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9/10 |
A classic not just of literary adaptation, but of the last truly adventurous era in British and European filmmaking. Full Review |
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A lusty historical romp with a cheeky sense of humor and a rollicking energy... Full Review |
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Irreverent comedy. Full Review |
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It has sex, Eastmancolor, some prime performers and plenty of action. Full Review |
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Despite the fitful energy and the beauty of the settings, the ugliness of the mise en scene and the crudity of the editing tend to triumph. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Albert Finney's performance can't stop Tom Jones from being a grainy mess. Full Review |
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A- |
A wonderful adaptation (by playwright John Osborn) of Henry Fielding's famous novel, about the adventures of the amorous illegit son of a servant, splendidly played by the young Albert Finney, who became a household name in America after the picture. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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5/5 |
Prepare yourself for what is surely one of the wildest, bawdiest and funniest comedies that a refreshingly agile filmmaker has ever brought to the screen. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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5/5 |
A brilliant melding of naturalistic 18th-Century backgrounds with frantic, Keystone Kops-style slapstick and silent film devices like undercranking, titles, wipes, stop-motion photography, etc. Full Review |
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One of the more unusual best picture winners in all the ones that have won, it's shocking and bawdy, even by today's standards, and for that reason it remains a classic. Full Review |
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