The sensibility may be a bit off, but there is more than enough sense involved in this mid-Atlantic Austen to make up the difference.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb 2001
fresh:
We need no further proof that this material is ageless.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
21 May 2003
fresh:
Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
I can't say I remembered this 1995 feature too clearly a couple of days later; but I certainly had a good time as I watched it.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb 2007
fresh:
Thompson's script manages the neat trick of preserving the necessary niceties and decorum of civilized behavior of the time while still cutting to the dramatic quick.