Paltrow carries it all as lightly as a breeze on Highbury hills.

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

Emma's' unforced charm is a remarkable achievement for a first-time writer-director.

| Feb 27, 2018

A good and creditable final curtain on Jane Austen.

| Nov 28, 2017

Perhaps the highest praise that can be given Paltrow is that there are no appreciable performance gaps between her green talents and the rest of the truly top-drawer cast.

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Suddenly you remember how merciless and cutting Austen's satire can be, even in the brutal '90s.

| Aug 19, 2006

When the going gets tougher the film doesn't have many answers, and the odd unsettling surge of over-emphasis betrays an eye on the American market.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2005

McGrath pokes gentle fun at the over-refinements of privileged gentility, though not without enjoying its trappings and honoring its best aspirations.

| Original Score: A- | May 31, 2004

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 | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

It's not difficult to enjoy the genteel amusements Emma provides even while wishing its virtues were less wholly on the surface.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2001

This is a better-looking movie than Sense and Sensibility and one as rich in characters.

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

Despite my lack of Austen education, I found the film to be thoroughly engaging and surprisingly touching, so I can only imagine how pleased a true Austen-ite may be with Emma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Paltrow is smashing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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

This has enough smooches and visual jests Austen never thought of to add up to a very sweet and pretty romp.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

[Paltrow] plays the title role in Emma with wit, timing and a to-the-manor-born graciousness...It's an intelligent performance from an actress everyone was ready to dismiss as a lightweight.

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

Gwyneth Paltrow sparkles in the title role, as young Miss Woodhouse, who wants to play God in her own little patch of England.

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