Brings alive Noel Coward's stage play and finds a comfortable place on film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

A period piece that may play well with those who hate period pieces. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2009

Easy Virtue makes subtle comedy look easy. The ensemble is brilliant, and Noel Coward's play-brought-to-film is just good enough . . . .

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 11, 2009

This British drawing-room comedy feels awfully familiar but is redeemed by some tart performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2009

A recent headline declared that [Jessica] Biel "is still trying to prove she's more than a pretty face." After Easy Virtue, she's still got something to prove.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 17, 2009

It's only a surprise if you haven't seen his other films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 12, 2009

Awkwardly conceived in a superficial reality that leaves its punch lines without much punch.

| Original Score: C | Jun 30, 2009

Biel's performance lacks the zing needed to jolt this comedy of manners.

| Original Score: C | Jun 27, 2009

Jessica Biel turns out to be up to the task of handling Coward's deliciously acidic lines and is well-matched with an impressive all-British cast in the sparkling "Easy Virtue."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2009

If Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas firing snarky bon mots at people for 90 minutes doesn't sound entertaining, I don't know what to tell you.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2009

...almost undone by the casting of thoroughly modern Jessica Biel.

Full Review | Original Score: 83/100 | Jun 22, 2009

Easy to like but hard to wholly recommend.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 21, 2009

Biel holds her own with the seamless acting chops of Firth and Thomas. The movie benefits from a snappy musical score with familiar standout show tunes from Cole Porter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2009

Said husband, as well as the family's other members, are as bland and forgettable as the 1920s British cuisine on display.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 19, 2009

Echoing the words of the great Porter song, Easy Virtue deliciously misbehaves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2009

In 1988, Sheridan Morley noted that Easy Virtue "remains of interest chiefly as Noel's elegant, laconic tribute to a lost world of drawing-room dramas." This gleefully inelegant movie tosses even that mild interest away.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 19, 2009

Biel is not completely miscast in this role of the Other in the drawing-room midst, but she exudes a thoroughly contemporary air that never jibes with the Twenties tenor of the English manor-born in the decade after the Great War.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Will appeal only to Anglophiles who swoon at the sound of such words as 'codswallop'...

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jun 19, 2009

Sporadically engaging, Easy Virtue would do better swapping amusement for a more elusive quarry: truth.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2009