Rotten
This 1975 film's inventiveness begins to flag about halfway through, but by then it's a relief. If only Wagner could have lived to see this.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Overview
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Director and cast
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71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ken Russell's filmization of Tommy is spectacular in nearly every way.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
This is both the movie in which [Russell] is most faithful to the ideas and tone of his material, and one of his very worst films.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
It's all fairly excessive and far from subtle, but in this case good taste would have been wildly inappropriate and a fearful drag.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
The effect is exhilarating and exhausting.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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