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Tommy

Alphabetical Listing of Movie Reviews

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Tommy -- British adaptation of Peter Townshend's rock opera about a pinball wizard (Roger Daltrey) who becomes a religious guru and ends as a rejected mystic calling out for a new consciousness. Though the performances of Eric Clapton, Elton John and Tina Turner are excellent, director Ken Russell's treatment is ludicrously out of control, obscuring the sense of the opera by an undue emphasis on visual pyrotechnics that is not dramatic but destructive. Satiric jabs at religion are excessive if taken literally. (A-IV) (PG) ( 1975 )

These movies have been evaluated for artistic merit and moral suitability by the media reviewing division of Catholic News Service. The reviews include the CNS rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.

The classifications are as follows:

A-I -- general patronage;
A-II -- adults and adolescents;
A-III -- adults;
L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
O -- morally offensive.

Note: Some movies previously were designated A-IV. Older films with this classification should be regarded as classified L.