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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Aug 2007

Becoming Jane has a burnished feminine sadness, and the director, Julian Jarrold, gives it a creamy-dark visual flow…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 01 Aug 2007

Becoming Jane turns into a presentable Harlequin romance, with hurdle after hurdle succeeded by an eleventh-hour turnaround…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 01 Aug 2007

For people who don't know the rules of cricket or concern themselves with the romantic problems of the upper class, Becoming Jane is far from…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Aug 2007

So I expect the Janeites who love the author will feel themselves ill-served by the film, which appears to have even less basis in fact than…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 01 Aug 2007

There are enough similarities between the movie and Pride and Prejudice that one could be forgiven thinking this screenplay is Austen lite…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 01 Aug 2007

The cinematic equivalent of a nice retirement facility…

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By Victoria Alexander (762) for FilmsInReview.com (462) on 31 Jul 2007

Slow, boring, and I still know nothing about the real Jane Austen…

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By Jason Clark (86) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2007

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this movie throws like a girl…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for WBAI Web Radio (87) on 27 Jul 2007

The tender emotion, delicacy of feeling and above all brilliant inspired flashes of brash female wit, render the truth or exaggeration of the…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 22 Jul 2007

A bearable period chick flick with a self-congratulatory “realistic” conceit…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Jul 2007

Feels like one of those misguided high-school-teacher exercises in making literary history sound contemporary…

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By Lexi Feinberg (95) for CinemaBlend (829) on 09 Jun 2007

Another bland, passionless costume drama as stuffy and oxygen-depriving as its corsets…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 06 Apr 2007

It's all very spirited without getting anywhere near the spirit of Austen herself -- at least as we know her from her work…

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By Julia Buckley (4) for thelondonpaper (91) on 29 Mar 2007

About 20 minutes in, you realise you're actually quite enjoying this; and, horror of horrors, Anne Hathaway's actually doing a rather good…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 25 Mar 2007

The style of Masterpiece Thetaer is applied to this reimagining of the making of writer Jane Austen, which will upset purists due to its liberties…

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By Urban Cinefile Critics (1,069) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 23 Mar 2007

While there is little that is fresh in this costume drama, it is well done and Anne Hathaway makes a delightful Jane, who is unafraid to defy…

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By Mark Adams (368) for Sunday Mirror (UK) (89) on 08 Mar 2007

The supporting cast are all terrific, as are the Irish locations…

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By Nev Pierce (205) for Total Film (3,532) on 08 Mar 2007

Think Austen In Amour, à la Shakespeare In Love. A warm, charming, bittersweet romance - destined to make a thousand dates…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 08 Mar 2007

Austen's fans will recognise something of the author's playful wit in the film, and forgive the dramatic liberties…

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By Anna Smith (519) for Film4 (1,522) on 08 Mar 2007

Despite the fact that this is a beautifully-shot, dryly funny period drama, some audiences might prefer to stick to the sheer escapism of Austen's…

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