The film builds with ease and quiet confidence into something lovely.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 11, 2023

If you're considering marriage counseling, watch "Enchanted April." Instead of blaming your spouse, embrace the fact that your annoyance comes from you being reflected back to yourself. We can only change ourselves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2019

What makes the magic work for the viewer is the exceptional individual performances as well as the fine ensemble efforts that director Mike Newell has orchestrated so beautifully.

Full Review | Jan 28, 2019

A small sun-dappled pleasure of a film.

| Jul 7, 2017

The whole thing seems like it was dreamed up during a sleepy afternoon by the Italian seaside, and is guaranteed to put viewers into a similarly soporific state.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2011

In a raucous movie summer, this is a film for those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine, and a recollection of a time when women and movies could be purveyors of enchantment.

| May 27, 2011

An undeniably pretty but ultimately vacant period drama.

| May 27, 2011

Elegant period film explores deep emotions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2011

Strong cast's reliable playing is undercut by a script that dawdles over well-trod territory.

| Jul 6, 2010

It reminded me of the introspective but otherwise soft-hitting stories that my mother reads in her monthly book club. It's a rich film, but not the kind of rich that I like.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2009

Thematically, Mike Newell's film is similar to A Room With a View, focusing on the liberating impact of an Italian vacation on repressed, downtrodden Brit femmes, well acted by Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson and Polly Walker.

| Original Score: B | Jul 17, 2009

One can't help but start planning a vacation immediately after the film ends

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2009

Like April weather most places north of the Mediterranean, this one is lukewarm, at best.

Full Review | Original Score: 70/100 | May 6, 2009

... behind that precious romanticism is a genuine commitment to this emotional renewal.

| May 5, 2009

A sweet pipe dream, Enchanted April won't bear much scrutiny; just bask in it indulgently like a spring sun.

| Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2008

Personalities clash but are cheerfully reconciled, and marital tensions are swiftly resolved.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2003

Exquisite -- it will bloom inside you the way Italy blooms inside the characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2003