Columbia Pictures | Release Date: December 12, 1980 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
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Negative:
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A lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie. [12 Dec 1980, p.C8]
90
It takes nearly three hours for Tess to reach its tragic climax at Stonehenge, but the deliberateness and occasional longueurs pay off: Tess is depthcharged, resonant. [22 Dec 1980, p.73]
88
Tess is as rewarding a film as you'll encounter all season. It has a veracity to its period that matches Tom Jones and a pictorial beauty that is breathtaking. [29 Dec 1980]
88
The detached tone of Tess - contemplative and fatalistic, resigned and melancholy - may be non-romantic and in the end not entirely true to Hardy, but it is full of love and compassion for those who seek both in a world where there is so little of either. [14 Feb 1981]