It doesn’t sit among Norman Jewison’s best films. But “The Thomas Crown Affair” has maintained a lasting appeal that (for the most part) still holds up today.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 25, 2025

It features two top stars who don’t always click, shallow treatment of its characters, and a meandering storyline that ultimately peters out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 10, 2024

... one can see where audiences would find themselves taken by the original crime caper and all its participants.

| Feb 6, 2024

The film has a strange way of falling into Jewison's work on films promoting social conscious.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2024

A heist film that lacks the necessary drive to escape the dull routine that only shows the cool side of Steve McQueen as if it were a commercial advertisement for a millionaire lifestyle magazine. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 17, 2023

...a slow-moving and mostly inaccessible drama that leans exceedingly (and egregiously) hard into its '60s aesthetic...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2021

Something was missing. What? Acting and a story, that's what. Although a well photographed movie can do a lot, it's got to have something else going for it or you catch yourself glancing at your watch.

| Jan 7, 2021

Actor Steve McQueen's iconic charisma is usually enough to carry any film, and he's well matched here with Faye Dunaway...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2020

Hardly as good or as memorable as either of its two stars would otherwise suggest, The Thomas Crown Affair is exactly what it's title promises -- a smug escapade from the perspective of its privileged lothario.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Classic '60s heist film has some violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2019

Despite its weaknesses, it's hard to resist McQueen and Dunaway, who elevate the pulpy and somewhat thinly drawn material with their strong performances

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2019

Norman Jewison and his cameraman Haskell Wexler... seem to have let photographic prettiness go completely to their heads.

| Jul 16, 2018

Jewison continues to prove himself among the most facile and appropriative of the two-dimensional directors ...

| Jun 26, 2017

Made at the height of Steve McQueen's popularity, this romantic heist thriller contains one of the sexiest scenes in a Hollywood film.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 11, 2012

Surface gloss is what you get in this caper-romance.

| May 21, 2009

The Norman Jewison film tells a crackerjack story, well-tooled, professionally crafted and fashioned with obvious meticulous care.

| Mar 26, 2009

It's no doubt dated now, and the multiscreen graphics won't make any sense on a pan-and-scan video version, but this heist movie starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway was considered pretty hot stuff back in 1968.

| Oct 31, 2007

Flimsy but great fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2007

McQueen is charming, reads his lines well, and shows that he isn't just another short actor with an interesting face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2007

Delightful.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2007