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A Man for All Seasons Reviews
A Man For All Seasons is another British history lesson...often buttoned up too tightly with overstuffed pageantry and an exhausting air of elitism
| Jun 27, 2023
In an era of muddled motives and nihilism, Sir Thomas satisfies our nostalgia not only for nobility but also for an age when a man, if he dared risk his head, knew exactly what he was risking it for.
| Sep 8, 2022
For me the only thing wrong with the film, in fact, is the secret ingredient that it is inoffensively and sweetly boring.
| Sep 8, 2022
Its translation from stage to screen not only adds a lot of visual beauty but does not mar the drama. And it adds a stronger sense of period.
| Sep 8, 2022
Fred Zinnemann's fastidious screen version of the play lets us revel in the conflict not of muscle but mind. The hero is that saintly scholar-statesman Sir Thomas More, a part given a rare wit and subtlety by Paul Scofield.
| Sep 8, 2022
On the philosophical level this is no more profound or thought-provoking than Batman. However -- and this is a big however -- A Man for All Seasons is a good film, competently made and extremely well acted.
| Sep 8, 2022
Paul Scofield's More, at once spritely and deadly serious, is a beautifully consistent study, generally low-pitched but always capable of an effective show of strength.
| Sep 8, 2022
The satisfactions to be gained from the film are preeminently quiet, civilized. But they are none the less real.
| Sep 8, 2022
Audiences won't remember the picture for its elaborate settings or spectacular scenes, but it would be difficult for them to forget the human qualities of its historical characters, who are made to practically live and breathe.
| Sep 8, 2022
It is a timeless tale, told in a timeless manner, by an author concerned with the human condition, devoted to his craft, and blessed with a gift for the English language.
| Sep 8, 2022
If we sometimes lack sympathy for More and secretly join the others in willing him to sign for his life, that is our fate as less than saintly men. And that is the power of a successful portrayal.
| Sep 7, 2022
Such a film as A Man For All Seasons makes the silly efforts of avant-garde and "new" picture directors look raw and hideous. This film combines so many qualities of excellence that it stands alone as an example of what a motion picture can be.
| Sep 7, 2022
It is a magnificent example of filmmaking, one that lives up to the full potential of the motion picture as a medium of entertainment and enlightenment.
| Sep 7, 2022
A Man for All Seasons is a beautiful film, even better than the play on which it's based, but dealing for all its color and enlarged canvas with the same stark struggle of conscience.
| Sep 7, 2022
A Man for All Seasons is a beautiful and satisfying film, the ultimate demonstration, perhaps, of how a fine stage play can be transcended and, with integrity and inspiration, turned into a great motion picture.
| Sep 7, 2022
Mr. Scofield conveys with absolute command Mr. Bolt's Renaissance Christian. Both affecting and matter-of-fact, he gives the impression of being a man who in the perilous society of the Reformation never loses his wits.
| Sep 7, 2022
It makes the strongest sort of appeal at an unusually high level to the intellect, emotion, and what might be called the social conscience of the viewer.
| Sep 7, 2022
[A Man for All Seasons] has so many virtues it comes pretty close to perfection. It is so consummate a work of movie art that it is the first two-hour film I can recall that seems to run only half that time.
| Sep 7, 2022
The excellence of Mr. Zinnemann's direction is indicated by the fact that one is never conscious of it, and the delicate color photography is both lovely and profound. An extraordinarily good film, which may require a second viewing for full appreciation.
| Sep 7, 2022
A Man for All Seasons is a thing of beauty to the eye, music to the ear and excitement to the mind. It is also one of the very few transpositions from stage to screen which can honestly be said to improve with the change of medium.
| Sep 7, 2022