Tamara Drewe is never less than enjoyable, and it could not be a fresher prospect in the current cinematic climate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

Loses all its supposed cunning in this conflicting adaptation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 20, 2022

Very funny, yet tragic, with fantastic performances - such a treat.

| Oct 12, 2020

Roger Allam breaks away from the British stage long enough to leave a lasting impression here.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 25, 2020

Frears offers us a film with a certain charm and a somewhat sarcastic humor that, however, greatly limits its access to the satire of British society that was the original comic. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

It's fun but overlong, not a waste of regular time, but probably of festival time.

| Nov 17, 2018

Tamara Drewe's self-proclamations of having blended "intelligent" British humour with black comedy slowly fritters away as the film plods towards its abrupt and wholly unsatisfactory ending.

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

It sounds like a fun romp, and it should be a fun romp, but it isn't. Instead, it's tiring and plain silly, without a single plausible character.

| Aug 30, 2018

A gentle satire without being mean-spirited, which is a difficult tone to maintain; and as far as comedy goes, it's actually quite good in its understated fashion.

| Aug 9, 2018

The project has a slapdash, good-enough-for-government work feel to it.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

A judicious comic actor, Arterton plays the eponymous Tamara, who throws a small English village into a tizzy when she returns from London to put the family cottage on the market.

| Jul 12, 2013

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2013

Frears' loose-limbed film, while warm and fitfully witty, feels consistently and steadfastly like less than the sum of its parts.

| May 15, 2012

It's only as the narrative adopts an increasingly episodic feel that one's interest begins to wane...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 2, 2011

It's a fine diversion filled with silly people following their silly desires.

| Original Score: B | Apr 4, 2011

Frears' screen version slightly coarsens Simmonds' wit and softens her sharpness, but even if his film manages to be more cartoony than the original cartoons, it remains hugely enjoyable.

| Mar 28, 2011

It doesn't hold together that well, but there are enough moments of wry inspiration to keep the movie more or less afloat.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2011

full review at Movies for the Masses

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

Starts with great wit and then dissipates into a hazy episodic mess

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 1, 2011