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

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

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

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

| Jul 6, 2010

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

| Oct 18, 2008

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

| Jan 26, 2006

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

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

The ladies are well bred, the scenery is lovely and the dialogue is polished and polite. It helps that the same villa in Portofino where Miss von Armin wrote the novel has been used to fine effect as the film's principal setting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

The movie's main weakness is the premise that sun, flowers, Mediterranean air and, certainly, castle living, are magical restoratives strong enough to salve all social ills.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It would seem from a spate of films lately that the English can only find their warmer, truer selves abroad -- usually in Italy. Enchanted April takes this familiar path, but traipses along with charm and glory, as if for the very first time.

| Jan 1, 2000

Is it fair to ask why usually sophisticated Americans turn to mush over this particular variety of moribund ersatz art?

| Jan 1, 2000

That's what's appealing about the movie (everyone walks away happy) and also forgettable (everyone walks away mush).

| Original Score: B- | Apr 5, 1992