Director Julian Jarrold ticks all the right boxes - stunning costumes, gorgeous scenery and dishy lead.

| Jan 31, 2022

An affecting portrait, in a Masterpiece Theatre kind of way, of the early years of one of the world's most beloved authors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Its surface is plausible enough, and Hathaway's performance is persuasive enough, for us to indulge in the delusion that we're actually encountering the famously elusive Jane Austen.

| Aug 23, 2018

"The reality of love's disappointments enriches the film's heroine, who never married in real life, and brings a 200-year-old figure into living focus."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2016

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

With a spot-on accent and altogether charming performance, Hathaway makes another convincing statement that she has grown, as a woman and as an actress.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Director Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots) struck a unique and lovely tone, managing to maintain a conventional Merchant-Ivory type look but successfully infusing it with some rather modern humor--Hathaway and McAvoy verbally sparring like an 18th century Trac

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 22, 2008

without a pretext and knowledge of the classic author, much of the richness of this movie got lost

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 18, 2008

Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.

| Feb 19, 2008

...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 11, 2008

A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.

| Original Score: C | Jan 12, 2008

A witty, winning Austen bio for tweens and older.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2007

An den to 'heis barethei [to story] tis alles ena ekatommyrio enniakosies peninta ennia hiliades triakosies eikosi dyo fores poy to 'heis ksanadei (i, an den to 'heis ksanadei), magkia soy kai kali diaskedasi, prodomenos de tha bgeis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2007

You'll enjoy it if you're the artistic, romantic type who can be seated for 120 minutes without CGI or anything getting blown up.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 20, 2007

Jane Austen did not live the life of Elizabeth Bennett, but even if she had, there was no reason to be this bland in presenting it.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 12, 2007

An enjoyable appetizer, albeit for a meal that one could argue already has far too many courses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2007

The squeaky clean love story of Jane Austen fails to make hay of either women's liberation or the miracle of creative writing, sticking to lush estates and courtly costume finery instead

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 7, 2007

Fails to capture either the sprightly spirit and poignant pathos of its subject's famous works.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2007

Becoming Jane takes a stab at being a historical romance in the vein of Shakespeare in Love, but something key is missing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2007