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The Thomas Crown Affair
Metascore
72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Charles Taylor
    90
    It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex.
  2. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    90
    The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. We didn't need it, but we got it anyway -- and it's pretty terrific.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    A romp of romantic larceny built out of spare parts we've seen in countless other films.
  4. Empire
    Reviewed by: Bob McCabe
    80
    As absorbed as he is with his characters, McTiernan is still able to provide a couple of dazzling set pieces - the sustained opening heist (involving a pun-intended Trojan horse) is a doozy, while the Magritte-inspired, music-fuelled denouement is, well, inspired.
  5. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    80
    Strangely enough, this movie provides a lot of the James Bond veneer that has been missing from recent James Bond movies.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    A moderately diverting entertainment as sleek and aerodynamically sound as the glider its characters tool around in, it takes no extraordinary chances and delivers no major surprises.
  7. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: David Ansen
    80
    Slick, gaudily suave guilty pleasure of a movie.
  8. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    80
    This is a movie that understands the larger-than-life appeal of the old-fashioned movie star and one of the movies' most primal appeals: beautiful people doing amusing things while talking about it cleverly.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    A full-throttle fantasy, about as heady a movie experience as it gets.
  10. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    80
    The movie is expert piffle for grownups, directed with great energy by John McTiernan and written with verve by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer.
  11. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    80
    It's a piece of disposable fluff -- though that's exactly what's so appealing about it.
  12. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    75
    What The Thomas Crown Affair has to sell audiences is a fantasy of the life of the super-rich who jet off to Martinique on the spur of the moment, and the super-smart who operate outside the rules.
  13. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    McTiernan's film mines what substance it has from its two stars, but is admittedly about keeping up its own appearances.
  14. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    Non-cultists should enjoy this engaging and well-acted retread -- a film that develops its own charm as it goes along.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    70
    A sealskin-slick, cat-and-mouse romance-caper trifle with a hard-on for wealth that feels downright Trumpian.
  16. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    70
    Hard to believe that real emotion was involved anywhere in this story.
  17. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    70
    The characters in The Thomas Crown Affair are cool -- too cool, in fact, for the film to develop much of a pulse.
  18. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    63
    The remake has a superior caper but less chemistry.
  19. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    Too expensive for its own good, too chic for comfort.
  20. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    It's enjoyable poppycock.
  21. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    60
    An improvement on the original, but that isn't saying much.
  22. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    50
    This new interpretation does few things better than the original, and many things worse.
  23. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    40
    Why remake Norman Jewison's staunchly cool 1968 heist film in such a lackadaisical, uninspired manner?
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