Simmering with rich emotion and crackling with class politics, Howards End is the crowning glory of the Merchant Ivory powerhouse and the rare perfect period drama.

| Original Score: 89/100 | Aug 12, 2023

The best of the countless Merchant Ivory productions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2023

Adapted from E.M. Forster's novel of human connections and follies, this newest film from the James Ivory / Ishmail Merchant / Ruth Prower Jhabvala team is close to flawless.

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

...an uneven work of adaptation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2021

An incredibly executed period piece, Howards End is as impassioned and refined a cinematic spectacle you're apt to see, belonging to a tradition of narrative and characterization belonging to a format now all but extinct.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2020

From start to finish, Howards End is a sumptuous visual delight. But the beauty of this film is far more than skin deep.

| Mar 5, 2020

If this film were a cake it would be a grand one -- rich, sumptuous, oh-so-filling and with numerous tiers.

| Jan 27, 2020

Howard's End unfolds at a deliberate, measure pace, and it always feels like so much is happening that Ivory will scarcely be able to contain it all.

| Aug 28, 2018

It is an intelligent movie, a good movie, about real and not fake issues. And it moves the heart.

| Aug 14, 2018

[Howards End] is an ever-pertinent, wondrous and welcome return to the big screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2017

A more troubling and rigorous inquest into a bygone era than usual.

| Aug 1, 2017

Deeply romantic, political, emotion-led, respectful of music and literature, impeccably dressed and, in one of the characters' own words, "overexpressive".

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2017

In its own severe and occasionally stolid way, Howards End offers real passion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2017

It’s the final message of compassion in the face of human foibles that leads the film to greatness.

| Jul 28, 2017

One of the best Merchant Ivory productions and one of the finest adaptations of an EM Forster novel.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 27, 2017

Choice performances from Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, but any social criticism is weakened by the veneration of the privileged milieu.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2017

Merchant Ivory were famous for producing some of cinema's most lavish period dramas, and Howards End is perhaps the culmination of their craft.

| Feb 28, 2017

A can't-miss opportunity to experience some of the finest filmmaking of the 20th century.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 21, 2016

Jhabvala's Oscar-winning script deftly juggles the characters' romantic and financial travails, and Ivory's delicate direction manages to cut to the emotional core.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 15, 2016

What sets "Howards End" apart is the complex emotional life of its characters.

| Sep 1, 2016