A vastly entertaining picture.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2024

The whole film feels a little too loose and easy breezy. There is too little at stake here. The cheesy theme song and sweaty sex scene convince you that this is going to serve as a piece of fantasy fulfilment, but it forgets to set up meaningful stakes.

| Feb 1, 2023

The conclusion - as predictable as it may be - is quite winning and heartfelt, embracing the fairy-tale aura audiences will surely want.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 2, 2022

The story is exactly as hammy as my summary makes it sound, something of a throwback to those films from the '40s when it was the exception rather than the rule for the male lead not to like himself, and Gere is no John Garfield.

| Nov 10, 2021

Both "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Pretty Woman" contain the Cinderella & antihero archetypes. In "Officer" the antihero story dominates; Cinderella is secondary. In "Pretty Woman" it's reversed. The antihero is played by Richard Gere in both movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2021

...a rare film that speaks to men, women and couples in equal measures....

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 12, 2021

The first part of the movie is valuable... It harbors hopes that this will be an interesting movie. Later, however, these hopes are drowned. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019

It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations.

| Jul 31, 2013

It's a straight-out drama in the old Hollywood style. As such, it works fairly well, though its lapses in taste are sour reminders of the subtlety Hollywood has lost in recent years.

| Jul 31, 2013

Taylor Hackford's 1982 film is an awesomely, stiflingly professional piece of work, with a fleet, superficial visual style, perfectly placed climaxes, and a screenplay that doesn't waste a single character or situation.

| Jul 31, 2013

Phenomenally successful at the time of its release, but increasingly dated-looking.

| Jul 31, 2013

Not even the combined talents of Debra Winger and an Oscar-winning Louis Gossett Jr can turn this one into a great movie, but if you're in the mood for a wallow, it's perfect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2013

An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1980s version that doesn't tamper much with the formula, but it does revitalize it, thanks to the erotic teamwork of Richard Gere and Debra Winger.

| Jul 31, 2013

The performances are uniformly strong, with Gere offering some of his best work -- though it pales in comparison with Gossett's tour de force as the tough, principled Sgt. Foley.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

So-so coming-of-age military flick; not for kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about.

| Jul 6, 2010

Its famous ending may be hokey, but in a movie this honest, it couldn't feel more right.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 17, 2007

Blue-collar fairy tale: Richard Gere is the frog-prince and Debra Winger is Cinderella in this extremely old-fashioned yet enjoyable movie, whose few modernist touches are a black sergeant, rougher lingo, and more vivid sexuality.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 3, 2006

Macho, materialistic, and pro-militarist, it's an objectionable little number made all the more insidious by the way Hackford pulls the strings and turns it into a heart-chilling weepie.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2004