Very witty and well-acted... Emma has been adapted a number of times, but this has enough intelligence in its adaptation to stand out from the crowd.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2022

If anyone were to push Emma Woodhouse into a less straitened age, why not the woman who captured Childish Gambino in a palm-tree polyblend?

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 14, 2021

While the story's sturdy, familiar structure remains resonant, this version never feels particularly inspired or revelatory, despite some lovely moments scattered throughout.

| Feb 14, 2021

Austen's genius lay in turning one girl's interior world into the whole universe, and transforming the pettiest of social interactions into microcosms with global moral significance.

| Sep 18, 2020

Emma. is deeply satisfying watch that, while lacking the contemporary feel of Amy Heckerling's Austen adaptation Clueless, is charming and lovely in its own right.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2020

Emma. pulls off a wonderful oxymoron: It's a substantial confection. I delighted in nearly every minute of it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 5, 2020

It allows this sort of recognizable humanity because so often I think [with period pieces] it's really easy to get lost in the corsets and the wigs... The human element of it really pays off.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 5, 2020

Emma is such a complete character that those around her often pale, but de Wilde's casting is downright vivacious.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2020

It takes a while for "Emma." to find its groove but once it gets there it's a delight. The source material is too good to disappoint.

| Original Score: B | Mar 1, 2020

The romantic tension builds nicely in a lush-looking new adaptation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 29, 2020

This version of Emma is an amusing, pastel-coloured movie which fully embraces the rhythm of Austen's dialogue.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2020

Like Knightley, we find Emma exasperating, but that's no reason to turn away from her. Witty, wry, spry, and deliciously and effortlessly romantic, this is Austen as she is supposed to be.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2020

Love may or may not make the world go round, but Austen's trick - repeated here by de Wilde - is in making us believe, for a minute, that matters of the heart matter more than anything else on Earth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2020

Directed by Autumn de Wilde, the new "Emma." - note that whimsical period - begins disastrously before righting itself to an acceptable tilt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2020

The movie is fine, and so is its Emma, Anya Taylor-Joy, but the standout is Bill Nighy in the small role of the main character's hypochondriac father.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2020

This lively adaptation plays up the novel's more farcical elements, granting it a snappy, rhythmic pace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2020

It's clear that de Wilde adores Emma, for all her challenges, just as much as her fictional admirers. And audiences should fall in love with her again, too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2020

All this adds up to a movie filled with that simple yet rare thing: pure pleasure. This film is both a loving homage to Austen and a celebration of fashion and decorative arts.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 26, 2020

It's funnier than most Austen adaptations and more visually beautiful, and then there's the movie's odd tone, which combines a rigorous attention to period detail with an arch and seemingly modern sensibility.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2020

The movie strains at the outset; the early scenes are dominated by a brisk procession of tidy, somewhat static shots, set into motion by some intrusive music and editing. Then, rather miraculously, it starts getting better and better.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2020