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By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 31 Aug 2004

As evidence of Reese Witherspoon's maturation, it is a revelation…

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By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 31 Aug 2004

Nair navigates narrative waters littered by a shipwreck's worth of detritus; too many characters bob and sink…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 31 Aug 2004

The company (in particular Witherspoon, James Purefoy and Eileen Atkins) is better than pleasant, even when it is behaving badly…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 31 Aug 2004

This sprawling novel has too many characters, too many locations and covers too much time to be successfully crammed into a feature-length film…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 31 Aug 2004

If the class struggles of the corseted clans are your thing, then Fair is a decently-acted and good looking film that's worth your time and money…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 31 Aug 2004

Although the episodic nature sometimes gets in the way of narrative propulsion, the lively characters -- and the hypocrisies they inadvertently…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for FilmJerk.com (622) on 31 Aug 2004

Nair's ambitions get the best of her, and poison the clarity of her vision…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 31 Aug 2004

Showing up in what amounts to cinematic cameos, India absolutely blows 19th century England away. It made me wish more of the tale took place there…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 31 Aug 2004

Starts with energetic glee, but, by the end, it's mocking itself more than skewering society…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 31 Aug 2004

Trying to adapt a lengthy period novel is always a bit ambitious and you end up skimming the surface of the story - visually, it's stunning…

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By Donald J. Levit (489) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 31 Aug 2004

Thackeray's readers could not help but root for his 'I'm no angel Becky,' but there's nothing to care for in this overblown production…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 31 Aug 2004

Thackeray's lumbering, episodic narrative rarely comes to life. Even Witherspoon's trademark perkiness seems muted and dulled…

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By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 31 Aug 2004

The satire is sharply observed and the performances acutely felt, most of all Witherspoon's…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 30 Aug 2004

Witherspoon takes on the movie the way Becky takes on the world, with oceans of sheer star quality to dazzle and beguile. Resistance is futile…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 30 Aug 2004

Watching it is the equivalent of investing ten million dollars at 0.2% interest…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 30 Aug 2004

demands too many abrupt about-faces for characters who are given episodic screen time to make epic evolutions…

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By Arthur Lazere (236) for culturevulture.net (793) on 30 Aug 2004

A 'Vanity Fair' with a half-realized Becky Sharp is, in the end, a Vanity Unsatisfactory…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Aug 2004

Nair's least persuasive film, in part because Becky has been reimagined as such a modern, proto-feminist heroine that she sometimes seems advanced…

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By Rebecca Murray (740) for About.com (1,470) on 30 Aug 2004

Chock-full of praiseworthy performances and impeccably directed by Nair, the film's flaw is that there's something standoffishness about the…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for www.susangranger.com (329) on 30 Aug 2004

Opulent yet bland, never venturing below the veneer of its story…

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