Captures the novel well

| Feb 28, 2022

A Jane Austen movie that is never pretty and only occasionally charming; instead, it is troubled, astringent, and touched with melancholy-not unlike the novel.

| Mar 8, 2021

For a film as esteemed as it is, it has always felt overshadowed by its proximity to BBC's beloved production of Pride and Prejudice.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2019

An extremely intelligent and textured film.

| Aug 16, 2018

[Persuasion] never lets the superb period detail intrude on the emotional realism or romantic suspense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2017

Jane Austen love story with an admirable heroine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Persuasion is proof that the most repressed love stories can have the sweetest payoff. Like Anne herself, the movie reveals its wonders slowly.

| Jul 7, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 20, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 8, 2004

The film offers the same pleasures as an Austen novel, as the audience sinks into a comforting, orderly world where life-shattering disruptions are handled with elegant ease.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 20, 2003

Following the novel with unhurried fidelity, the film is as faithful to Austen as Anne Elliot is to the man of her dreams.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2003

Literate, beautifully-produced screen adaptation of a classc Jane Austen novel.

| Aug 27, 2002

Austen fans: Prepare to be swept away.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Apart from some minor audio problems, Persuasion is a truly enjoyable film that captures the time period in an amusing, revealing manner and is educational for all ages.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2002

As gloriously romantic as it is giddily hilarious, Persuasion gives you a ruefully knowing smile as it sides with the wise heart. You leave the theater feeling better about everything.

| Apr 17, 2002

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Vanessa Redgrave has never been more likable on screen than in her buoyantly athletic turn here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Much of the movie's emotional work has to be done by...faces and eyes, while other people speak of other things, and to see that happening is frustrating, because it happens so slowly, and romantic, because it happens at all.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Enjoyable, but dry, adaptation of a Jane Austen romance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000