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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Mr. Scorsese has made a big, intelligent movie that functions as if it were a window on a world he had just discovered, and about which he can't wait to spread the news. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Manages to be both personal and true to its source, though it never quite comes together. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: I don't know any of those [prior] versions, and I wonder how (which means I doubt that) they avoided the snare that Wharton unwittingly set for her adapters, the snare that, for all his gifts, caught Scorsese. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Scorsese, that artist of headlong temperament, here exhibits enormous patience. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Scorsese shows he can flex an entirely different set of muscles and still make a great movie. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Perhaps it shouldn't come as such a grand surprise that he is as deft at exploring the nuances of Edwardian manners as he is the laws of modern-day machismo. Read more