Far from another cuted-up, waistcoat- &-bustle Emma Thompson weekend getaway, Jude is stark, gnarly, and breathtaking.

| Dec 27, 2022

What Jude misses by being so darned pretty is any sense of the magnitude of the harshness of Victorian society towards anyone, particularly women, whose life didn’t conform to the expected pieties.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 8, 2022

Beautifully shot adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel 'Jude The Obscure' -- a bit workmanlike, but solid, well-acted and artfully rendered. (Scorpion Releasing blu-ray).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2022

Winslet is captivating and heartbreaking in a performance that should have gotten Oscar attention, and Eccleston matches her in intensity and passion. Both mine the subtleties and nuances of these rich, difficult characters.

| Original Score: A | May 26, 2022

Jude is masterfully rendered.

| Oct 16, 2019

The film has its period down cold, but what makes it special is its nerve, about which the best you can say is that it matches Hardy's own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2012

It's good quality stuff, but sublimely miserable.

| May 1, 2012

It's worth seeing Jude, a stark adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, just for the extraordinary performance of Christopher Eccleston as Jude Fawley.

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Young English actress Kate Winslet adds luster and energy to Jude, a bold and generally successful attempt to adapt Thomas Hardy's final novel, Jude the Obscure, to the bigscreen.

| Jun 10, 2008

Without the benefit of Hardy's prose, the point of the movie is lost in the grim, grayish ether.

| Aug 19, 2006

Ambitious, sensitive, but ultimately uninvolving.

| Jun 24, 2006

Superbly acted by all involved.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2005

Jude isn't a movie to see as entertainment, but is a strong contemplation on man's struggle to overcome oppressive odds.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2004

Sometimes outstanding but is a not always satisfying screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel.

| Original Score: B | Jan 15, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 18, 2003

Among the very best, frankest, and most honest of recent literary adaptations.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 6, 2003

Jude remains a handsome if gravely flawed film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003