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Roger Ebert, At the Movies: A witty, entertaining film. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This Mansfield Park becomes a kind of romanticized gloss -- an imaginative grad-student thesis that melds author and character. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Though it's never dull, this Mansfield Park has too much of its own agenda and too little of Austen's to completely succeed. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: While this version plays somewhat fast and loose with the original story, and even more so with the heroine's character, it is still much more Jane Austen than not. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's alluring to see a costume drama that takes us inside the subtlest, most wrenching realities of money. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Read more
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: A gorgeous, enchanting experience. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more
Derek Elley, Variety: Too often steps out of its era to adopt a knowing, politically correct, late-20th-century attitude to the society portrayed. Read more
Justine Elias, Village Voice: Rozema's movie ... in trying so hard to entertain, ends up sabotaging itself. Read more