Jude 1996

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: Jude remains a handsome if gravely flawed film. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The dark, steel engraving look that cinematographer Eduardo Serra has given Jude endows it with a somber magnificence. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's worth seeing Jude, a stark adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, just for the extraordinary performance of Christopher Eccleston as Jude Fawley. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is a film of tremendous scope and emotional depth that uncovers the soul of a novel and brings it to life on the screen. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Winterbottom is angry, clear-headed, and with a sure visual sense. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Jude is knockout Hardy, filled with stormy visual poetry and accompanied by a gorgeous yet simple score. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Ambitious, sensitive, but ultimately uninvolving. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: Young English actress Kate Winslet adds luster and energy to Jude, a bold and generally successful attempt to adapt Thomas Hardy's final novel, Jude the Obscure, to the bigscreen. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Without the benefit of Hardy's prose, the point of the movie is lost in the grim, grayish ether. Read more

Lloyd Rose, Washington Post: Watching the wan Christopher Eccleston as Jude and Kate Winslet as his cousin and lover Sue Bridehead, an audience might well wonder what all the fuss was about. Read more