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Susan Stark, Detroit News: A tale of the past that speaks directly to the present. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Mr. Davies' stylish adaptation should certainly please Ms. Wharton's fans. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Davies breathes fresh air through the wax museum corridors of the costume drama by finding behind all that stiff-spined pomp and circumstance the most venal of impulses. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Although set nearly a hundred years ago, it still sends a chill of recognition and dread. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: I can't recall another movie that cries out so incessantly for running commentary. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Lovely to look at. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Expresses the timeless impact of Lily Bart's plight. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Anderson ... gives a performance as compelling and impressive as anything we've seen all year. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: There's so much unmitigated misery to contend with that the story nearly turns comical. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: A beautiful, elegantly tasteful film about the utter and complete devastation of a human being. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Makes a much read American classic feel new and freshly devastating. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Such an audacious and unexpected triumph as Anderson's enhances everything around it. Read more
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The power of its story -- especially in the latter moments -- will leave many stunned and deeply affected. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Anderson's talent has many notes, and I liked the presence she brought to Lily Bart. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Anderson's Lily is the kind of heroine who earns our protectiveness by never begging for it; it's an astonishing performance. Read more
Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle: [Anderson's] performance is a study in the difference between hubris and pride, remarkable for how unshowy but profoundly devastating it is. Read more
Derek Elley, Variety: Plays more like Scenes From Edith Wharton's Novel than a dramatically involving adaptation. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: It's no fetishized lost world, but one that is fiercely, uncomfortably present. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Anderson gives a tour de force as a woman who's at the end of her rope without knowing how she got there. Read more