An Officer and a Gentleman 1982

Janet Maslin, New York Times: A conventional but hugely compelling drama. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time. Maybe that's because it's not about "love" as a Hollywood concept, but about love as growth, as learning to accept other people for who and what they are. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: 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. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about. Read more