Emma: Critic Reviews

100%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

84%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Full Review » 16 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

80

Gwyneth Paltrow makes a resplendent Emma, gliding through the film with an elegance and patrician wit that bring the young Katharine Hepburn to mind.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

100

This is a better-looking movie than Sense and Sensibility and one as rich in characters.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Washington Post (Top Critic)

Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Paltrow is smashing.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Gwyneth Paltrow sparkles in the title role, as young Miss Woodhouse, who wants to play God in her own little patch of England.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 12 years ago
Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

Full Review » 6 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

It's not difficult to enjoy the genteel amusements Emma provides even while wishing its virtues were less wholly on the surface.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Ellen MacKay Common Sense Media

80

Perfect for warmhearted family entertainment.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com

20

Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

Full Review » 6 years ago
Joe Williams St. Louis Post-Dispatch

80

Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews

75

This Emma is light, airy and modern -- surely Austen's funniest work.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer

67

While Sense and Sensibility loves subtlety, silence, and space, and Persuasion loves realism, repression, and understatement, Emma loves its star Gwyneth Paltrow ...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Guide

84

McGrath pokes gentle fun at the over-refinements of privileged gentility, though not without enjoying its trappings and honoring its best aspirations.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

40

Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeanne Aufmuth Palo Alto Weekly

100

Full Review » 9 years ago
Mark Robison Reno Gazette-Journal

80

A good Jane Austen adaptation that can be watched over and over.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson San Francisco Examiner

60

Fun, but pales next to the previous year's Clueless.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

75

Although it is a very fine film, I found the pace a little slow in places as it wandered off the mark.
Full Review » 9 years ago