Ang Lee’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novel respects the timeless material while bringing a contemporary energy and humour to the tale.

| Jun 21, 2023

This movie, made with love and wit, reminds us how much charm, liveliness, passion, good sense--and sensibility--Jane Austen provides.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 27, 2019

A beautifully-crafted, witty, moving film likely to overcome even the stiffest Austen prejudice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Elinor, in other words, is a performance, but it is a performance that issues intimately from Thompson's real character, as all good performances do.

| Nov 15, 2017

Luminously brings to life Austen's vision of the dance of the sexes.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

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.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2009

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.

| Feb 9, 2007

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

| Jun 24, 2006

We need no further proof that this material is ageless.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 21, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 13, 2001

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

An exuberant, well- crafted film that gets the audience involved on a gut level.

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

Demonstrates how little humankind has evolved in matters of the heart.

| Jan 1, 2000

It's bliss.

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

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

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Sense and Sensibility is an absorbing, delightful, and nuanced movie.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

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

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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

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

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

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000