Permeating with possibilities and charged with the right measure of passion in every engrossing layer, Vinterberg's film stands head and shoulders above the feeble likes of today's lesser efforts of cinematic literary romance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 13, 2024

There is just a great flow to Vinterberg’s version of the Hardy classic and its easy to fall into the beautiful period setting and the simple charm of the story. It also offers another example of Mulligan’s magic as an actress.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

At just shy of two hours it stuffs in a miraculous amount of story and flies, simply flies, on a great big beautiful pair of gilded wings

| Jan 14, 2022

An abbreviated retelling of the story. The last version, from director John Schlesinger and star Julie Christie, was one hour longer but Vinterberg brings a luminous energy and modern feel to an old tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

An excellent adaptation with one of Mulligan's finest & most underrated performances.

| Jan 5, 2021

Anchored by terrific performances, especially Matthias Schoenaerts and Carey Mulligan, Thomas Vinterberg's adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel is a wonderful modern interpretation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2020

A great deal of effort and talent has been expended to make an agreeable and rather forgettable trifle.

| Aug 11, 2020

An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's famous novel, this old fashioned romantic drama holds our attention so finely that we forget how familiar and predictable it is.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 15, 2020

It is a correct adaptation of Hardy's work, although we could have enjoyed ourselves much more by seeing the same story told in a less conventional way. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

Sadly, the story is so blandly dumb, the characters so hollow, the message so convoluted and self-contradictory, that Far From the Madding Crowd offers little beyond surface-level pleasures.

| Apr 9, 2020

Conventionality is almost surpassed by fine performances and some technical flair, yet the emphatically romance-driven conclusion is all the more disappointing alongside such winning translation of Hardy's rural verisimilitude.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2019

The cinematography from Charlotte Bruus Christensen is earthy and beautiful.

| Original Score: B | Apr 26, 2019

This is a beautiful and enchanting period drama, but lovers of the novel or 1967 film should prepare themselves for a Reader's Digest version of the plot.

| Mar 19, 2019

Vinterberg's strength behind the camera is creating a lush and atmospheric look that serves the story well, thanks largely to his frequent collaborator Charlotte Bruus Christensen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2019

Troy's attractive free-spiritedness and the obvious connection she has with Oak, Mulligan, nails her every attribute with charm, humor, warmth and poignancy, fast cementing her reputation as one of the greatest actresses of her generation.

| Feb 26, 2019

Vinterberg's adaptation may seem like Masterpiece Theater fodder, but he inflicts a socially resonant tone that quietly screams the determination of literature's best heroines.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 14, 2018

The story gets neutered into an Austenesque romantic drama that stereotypes and fails to get beneath the pretty surface of its period costumes and landscapes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2018

Vinterberg's confident direction and understanding of the radical potential of Hardy's original material combines with the film's remarkable performances to render this well above the usual 'costume drama' book-to-screen adaptation.

| Aug 25, 2018

Happily ever-after and true love is not always very straight forward and "Far from the Madding Crowd" most certainly conveys this.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 21, 2018

For those of you with Poldark withdrawal, who simply want to slip into a coma of heaving bosoms and pulsing ponies and farm work, this is perfect material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2018