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Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune: The Jane Austen Book Club is an admirable mix of heady and fluffy, the kind of wish-fulfillment fantasy that needn't make filmgoers ashamed of what they wished for. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie equivalent of a toenail-painting session. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ...Things never rise above the competent chick-flick level. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: There's a difference between connecting to a writer's work and reading too much of yourself in it, and the banal film version of Fowler's book crosses the line six too many times. Read more
Penny Walker, Arizona Republic: Despite its flaws, Book Club leaves viewers with that best result of Austen films: a wonderful ache to fall in love. It didn't pierce my soul, but it definitely lifted my spirits. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: As a friend said on the way out: At least no books were harmed in the making of this movie. And he's right. But that's only because no one really tried. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Swicord has a playful sense of humor and a good ear for dialogue, and the movie pleasantly accomplishes what it set out to accomplish. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The episodes roll by in smooth progression, and the talkiness has the round, impassioned tones of readers ignited by fiction. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's a funny conceit, and the actors -- who include Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, and Hugh Dancy -- are fun to watch. But the entire enterprise ultimately seems designed to turn Austen into a self-help guru. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There's comfort to be had in the plot geometry of The Jane Austen Book Club, a photogenic adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 best-seller. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Unlike so many chick flicks that celebrate female solidarity as a concept without ever making us feel it, The Jane Austen Book Club is convincingly feminist in a nonpolitical way. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Drearily formulaic. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Surely you must know you're still better off reading Austen on your own. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There isn't an actress here who isn't perfect. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: This is a comfort film, the on-screen equivalent of mac and cheese -- though with a splash of truffle oil to class things up. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The Jane Austen Book Club is worth watching primarily for Blunt, the delicious scene-stealer from The Devil Wears Prada. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The cast alone makes The Jane Austen Book Club good -- though not great -- entertainment for at least the bookish moviegoers among us. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Leave it to the Godmother of Chick Lit to inspire the best chick picture in many an age. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The acting ensemble is as colorful, and thorny, as a garden of Austen archetypes. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Jane Austen Book Club is an example of how a movie can follow the general plot of a book yet fail to capture the spirit. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: [Swicord] has created characters who really do seem to have read the books and talk like they have. And she has created a book club that, like all book clubs, is really about its members. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Austen devotees are sure to lap up the central premise that her notions of love and friendship are as relevant today as ever. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The film has an undeniable, easygoing charm. Real life is seldom so pleasingly plotted, but then real life is what people go to movies like this to get away from. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The Jane Austen Book Club could be the start of a genre. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: The script might have slipped into caricature, as often the adaptations of Austen's novels have, but Swicord opts for characters in whom we might see ourselves. Read more
Tom Beer, Time Out: The real disappointment is the paint-by-numbers flatness of the contemporary stories and characters; it's hard to care much about Sylvia and Prudie with Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse hovering in the wings. Read more
Anna Smith, Time Out: Just fine in a sentimental, mainstream kind of way. Although by constantly referencing Austen's sharp wit and characterisation, this can only ever come up short in comparison. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: Cast is first-rate all around, unafraid to play up the annoying, insensitive or self-pitying aspects of their nonetheless likeable characters. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Everyone is given their due and dignity in this funny, sexy, humanist film that, if it is a chick flick, gives the genre a good name. Read more