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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 29 Apr 2015

Far From the Madding Crowd will no doubt captivate future generations of tenth-graders who couldn’t be bothered to read the book, but it…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 28 Apr 2015

If it isn’t as decorous and deft as the Jane Austen romances of an earlier literary (and cinematic) age, the longing is still there in a…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Apr 2015

With a steely resilience burning beneath her delicate, creamy complexion, Carey Mulligan brings remarkable nuance and a rich inner life to…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 28 Apr 2015

Vinterberg aces the metaphor-heavy scene in which Troy demonstrates his swordsmanship for an inexperienced, dazzled Bathsheba…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 28 Apr 2015

Its virtues are many and this filmed version of Hardy’s fourth novel is well worth seeing…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Apr 2015

To be fair, Far From The Madding Crowd isn’t the kind of novel that lends itself to adaptation; it was originally published as a monthly…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 28 Apr 2015

[VIDEO ESSAY] What a difference a remake can make…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 28 Apr 2015

It's easy to read this 19th century tale as modern and feminist, but it's even more exciting is how right it gets sloppy, not always sensible…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 28 Apr 2015

Ridiculously romantic in all the best ways, and more modern, more progressive, and even just plain more grownup that half the movies thrown…

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By Marina A (78) on 28 Apr 2015

Thomas Hardy isn't exactly peaches and cream and squeezing out the romance from his tale of trials, tribulations and hard-to-get-to happy endings,…

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By Ryan B (2,114) on 28 Apr 2015

I typically don't care for film adaptations of literary classics and this update of Hardy's book does suffer some of the obvious pitfalls that…

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By Jane Crowther (96) for Total Film (3,532) on 27 Apr 2015

Fresh enough to engage newcomers, respectful enough to appease scholars, this is – for genre fans – pure period-drama porn…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2015

As written by Hardy, Bathsheba is bracingly whole and human; here she’s been outlined, and thus circumscribed, by an eager student’s highlighter…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for Empire (3,446) on 26 Apr 2015

Extremely well done and well acted, it’s an attractive, appealing, involving adaptation, just not as iconic as the ’60s film…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 26 Apr 2015

Hardy gave his heroine a symphonic range, and all an actress can do is pick out certain tones and strains — the fluted whimsy by which Bathsheba…

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By James Mottram (656) for The List (2,018) on 26 Apr 2015

For all the bucolic beauty and ravishing romance, we're reminded that violence is never far from the surface - and Vinterberg captures the…

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By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Apr 2015

The lack of real analysis or consideration leaves this perilously close to a Goldilocks-style depiction of privileged female indecision…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Star (403) on 24 Apr 2015

David Nicholls deserves huge credit for condensing Hardy's sprawling melodrama into a rollicking screenplay that comes in at under two hours…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 24 Apr 2015

Carey Mulligan is a delight to watch in her authentic recreation of a feminist looking for a man who is able to tame her…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 02 Apr 2015

[It] has one great strength: an outstanding performance in this difficult, perhaps fundamentally incoherent, role from Carey Mulligan, far…

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