Despite the movie's cramming romantic mishaps down our gullets like the pilot episode of a mini-series...viewing the discontents of the post-feminist generation through the prism of Austen's rulebook starts to produce its share of entertaining moments...

| May 26, 2020

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

...not a genre film but...deserves mention for portraying a character who is a fan of science-fiction but is not characterized as a hopeless geek...

| Mar 10, 2009

A surprisingly successful, un-Hallmark-ified take on the traditional chick flick.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 27, 2008

Austen wrote six novels and The Jane Austen Book Club is about six people who meet to discuss them over the course of six months. 666. Coincidence? I think not.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 16, 2008

The Jane Austen Book Club is both a testament to Austen's continued relevance and a fine example of classroom particulars converted into entertaining banter without losing any oomph.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

If you're prepared to sit through a lot of mediocrity in search of a few worthwhile moments and a couple of actors who rise above the material, then you might be satisfied.

Full Review | Original Score: 66/100 | Feb 20, 2008

Breaking up, jealousies, match making and a bid for second chances are the themes of this vibrant and uplifting film that explores life, love and desire.

| Jan 24, 2008

Charming, funny and romantic.

| Original Score: B | Jan 16, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

These ladies have too much time on their hands if the only thing they worry about is finishing their reading assignment in time for their next bout of well-heeled lusting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2007

The contrivance is horrible, the schmaltz unpardonable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2007

THIS beautifully acted story is, underneath it all, a fairly formulaic chick flick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2007

Positively marinated in oestrogen, this is aimed at middle-aged females - the more unhappily married the better - with the cardiganed cast spending much of the running time drinking tea on verandas and moaning about men over their knitting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2007

The Jane Austen Book Club, based on Karen Joy Fowler's bestseller, offers a distinctive vision of hell - a plane of being where there are only six novels that matter, and they're consulted like all-purpose agony aunts.

| Nov 16, 2007

This is a rom-com that tries to be sassy and true but ends up ridiculously unlike any kind of reality at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2007

A twittering soap opera about five Californian women using Jane as an agony aunt for their love problems.

| Nov 15, 2007

Comfortable if unchallenging, watching this gentle, female-oriented film is a bit like curling up in bed with a book whose ending you already know. No alarms and no surprises.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2007

The women are so seemingly at ease in their roles that the movie drifts towards its happy-ever-after finale without a missed beat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2007