Sense and Sensibility: Critic Reviews

We need no further proof that this material is ageless.

The movie is good fun, boasting a dozen vivid characters and two that moviegoers will take to heart.

The film is packed with pleasing performances by stage-trained actors.

Sense and Sensibility is an enjoyable film, and yet it left me somehow unsatisfied.

I can't say I remembered this 1995 feature too clearly a couple of days later; but I certainly had a good time as I watched it.

It's bliss.

Thompson's script manages the neat trick of preserving the necessary niceties and decorum of civilized behavior of the time while still cutting to the dramatic quick.

Thompson's script hits its peak by keeping Austen's voice yet finding the satirical smirk behind it.

A triumph for Taiwan's most famous director, Ang Lee.

Sense and Sensibility is funny, expansive, and a delight to spend company with.

Told with deft skill and a pleasantly humorous romantic touch.

The sensibility may be a bit off, but there is more than enough sense involved in this mid-Atlantic Austen to make up the difference.

A lush and witty telling of Jane Austen's novel.

For once, Thompson turns in a gimmick-free performance, and the rest of the actors range from fine to fabulous.

A stylish, witty and substantial adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.

A little funny, a bit sad, an all-around entertaining.

Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble.

Unlike most of the usual rolling hills, costume period drama, Merchant-Ivory type, century-old novel movies, Sense and Sensibility succeeds quite handily.

A little funny, a bit sad, and all-around entertaining.

Though old-fashioned, this version of Austen's popular book is most enjoyable due to Ang Lee's skillfull helming, Emma Thompson's astute screenplay, which deservedly won the Oscar, and excellent ensemble headed by Thompson and Kate Winslet.