The story occasionally grows choppy and diffuse, yet the visual splendors never fail to take command.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2021

A sterling confluence of three distinct icons, Women in Love is a key masterpiece of 1970s era British cinema, and one which has outlasted its infamous bits to reveal a decadent, lush, study on the amorphous subjects of love and sexuality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2020

The most successful adaptation of a Lawrence novel to the screen.

| Jun 30, 2020

All these people pushing the film in personal ways are really dominated by Lawrence and his apocalyptic vision. So the movie ends up like a gaudy chariot pulled by twelve furious stallions who have been nibbling on locoweed.

| Jun 13, 2019

To make the novel so excitedly, lip-smackingly "period" in its decorations leaves unreconciled problems of thought and character, a kind of weightlessness never securely anchored in Russell's direction or in Larry Kramer's devoted script.

| Jun 11, 2019

Despite a growing portentousness towards the end, and moments of silliness scattered throughout, a surprisingly restrained, even respectful adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel.

| Jun 11, 2019

Directed with style and punch by Ken Russell, this is an episodic but challenging and holding pic.

| Jun 11, 2019

Yet it is to the film's great credit that, in depicting that "puritanical insistence," heterosexuality is revealed to be the most unnatural form of coupling.

| Aug 14, 2018

If you find your interest waning as the film moves on, it is likely due to exhaustion of trying to generate empathy with characters who constantly evade such connection. So much of the film feels written and performed, but rarely lived.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2018

Unable or perhaps unwilling to rein in the source material's sentiment, [director Ken] Russell created a work defined by its earnestness-something that remains potent nearly 50 years later.

| Dec 7, 2017

Bates and Reed's homoerotic sparring would be sexy and shocking in any context. But Women in Love's talkier scenes are more exciting than any screen nudity could be.

| Nov 29, 2017

Ken Russell is interested in using the novel's sexually charged characters as figures to be placed into a series of fevered tableaux.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2017

It's Russell as restrained as he can be, who has fun delving into the sexual explorations of the author.

| Original Score: B | Mar 28, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 1, 2005

Controversial for its time Ken Russell classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2005

Though deviating from D.H. Lawrence's novel considerably, this is Ken Russell's most fully realized narrative film, lavishly mounted and well acted, especially by Glenda Jackson in an Oscar-winning performance.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 18, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2004