The Best Picture Oscar winner is an enjoyable, surprisingly bawdy and self-referential caper starring Albert Finney as a spoiled, incorrigible scamp.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2023

British humor can be a tough sell at times, and some of the jokes might be lost on a generation or two later.

| Jun 27, 2023

You can expect an absolutely breathtaking picture of joyous barbarity in eighteenth-century England.

| Jan 25, 2022

Decades of art-house imitators and Benny Hill reruns may have removed some of the luster, but there's still plenty to admire and enjoy in this bawdy British effort.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2021

Either authentic, disgusting, or both, this lighthearted, crude comedy of manners and classes soon devolves into a conundrum of misguided matchmakers.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 27, 2020

A formidable ensemble cast allows for Tom Jones to remain a picaresque time capsule of a flippant form and tone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2020

'Tom Jones' is a very pompous adventure comedy by Tony Richardson, but not even the stupendous performance from Albert Finney as the irreverent casanova can rescue its apparent narrative triviality. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 8, 2020

Tom Jones has a sense of playfulness and experimentation that one rarely finds in an upscale motion picture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2020

Oscar-winning adventure comedy has dated sexist humor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2020

Sizzling with vitality and frankly sexy, this British comedy-of-love honors the gaiety and candor of life in eighteenth-century England, without losing sight of its crudities and oppressions.

| Oct 14, 2019

[A] lusty, magnificent period comedy.

| Feb 19, 2019

Tony Richardson's Tom Jones took Henry Fielding's bawdy picaresque and updated it for a new generation.

| Mar 7, 2018

A fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek movie about an engaging foundling.

| Feb 18, 2015

While Tom remains a lot of fun, he's just not the irreverent Young Turk he seemed three decades ago.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 14, 2014

It's a free-wheeling, fast-moving relic from a time when "bawdy" wasn't bad and sex comedies still celebrated sex.

| Jan 14, 2014

It was always arch, overlong and uncertain of tone, but nevertheless very funny and extraordinarily bawdy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2014

The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue.

| Feb 20, 2009

A classic not just of literary adaptation, but of the last truly adventurous era in British and European filmmaking.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 8, 2008

A lusty historical romp with a cheeky sense of humor and a rollicking energy...

| Jun 27, 2008

Irreverent comedy.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 1, 2008