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The film holds a 71% approval rating on [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 35 reviews, with an average grade of 6.80/10. The critical consensus reads: "''Tommy'' is as erratic and propulsive as a game of pinball, incorporating the Who's songs into an irreverent odyssey with the visual imagination that only director Ken Russell can conjure."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021648_tommy |title=Tommy |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=22 May 2023 }}</ref>
[[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' declared, "It may be the most overproduced movie ever made, but there is wit and reason for this. It is the last word in pop art ... Everything, including the sound level, is too much. But even this works in an odd way. The victim of the movie is as much the person sitting in the audience as it is Tommy."<ref>{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |date=March 30, 1975 |title=When Too Much Is Just About Right |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=91 }}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film "spectacular in every way ... The production is magnificent, the multitrack sound (tradenamed
[[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three stars out of four, commenting that its message is muddled and hypocritical, but that its focus is on well-executed, grandiose spectacles rather than any pretense at meaning. He called the pinball tournament sequence "the movie's best single scene: a pulsating, orgiastic turn-on edited with the precision of a machine gun burst."<ref>{{cite web |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=January 1, 1975|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tommy-1975|title=Tommy Movie Review & Film Summary |access-date=2015-12-25}}</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' awarded ''Tommy'' two-and-a-half stars out of four, calling the film "a disappointing, slap-dash pictorialization of the fine music of the Who [with] no cinematic flow."<ref>[[Gene Siskel|Siskel, Gene]] (March 24, 1975). "'Tommy' Hits Wrong Senses". ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. Section 3, p. 19.</ref>
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