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Tamara Drewe Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    64

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    This rotely cheeky, Anglo-plastic adultery comedy is set in the golden-green English countryside, and it makes a few quirky nods toward artistry, but it's really just a glib concoction.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

    It all leaves "Drewe" and its often jarring turns of motivation and tone - feeling haphazard and cartoony, and the whole thing more a vibrant mess than something comically disarming.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    There is something shallow and cautious about this film, which strains to maintain a glib, cheery demeanor that is not always appropriate to the details of the story.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    Tamara Drewe is so light, it's almost pure froth.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Time Richard Corliss

    So here's my second and final verdict on the movie: it's as captivating as its heroine.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Leslie Felperin

    Adapted from a comicstrip-turned-graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, which was itself based on Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd," picture represents a satirical but soft-biting swipe at contempo middle-class mores among Blighty's chattering countryside classes.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Village Voice J. Hoberman

    Frears might have accelerated the comic pacing, but the story is a good one and events come nicely to a boil.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    The story's literary underpinnings are hilariously represented by the denizens of a seedy writers' retreat situated near Tamara's old house, which she has come back to reclaim after her mother's death.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

    Jaunty and entertaining.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Tamara Drewe is one of those British comedies in which, one way or another, we envy all of the characters.

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3

Tamara Drewe review by mydoggylives
Okay film, not great. Only watched it for Gemma Arterton, really.

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