A Room With A View Reviews
Common Sense Media
Glorious romance most likely to appeal to older kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Merchant Ivory's first artistic and commercial hit is a light, well-acted, nicely mounted comedy of manners based on Forster's classic novel; Daniel Day-Lewis steals all of his scenes
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| Original Score: A-
Looking Closer
James Ivory directs this gentle, poetic, comic film with grace and passion for its characters in this adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel.
| Original Score: A+
TV Guide's Movie Guide
t's hard to believe A Room with a View cost so little; the costumes and sets are dazzling and the acting is superb -- from two-time Oscar-winner Smith to the smallest role, there's not a false note.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticA Room With a View is not only uncharacteristically benign for Forster, but also blithely, elegantly funny, which is a fit description of [this]first-rate film adaptation...
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| Original Score: 5/5
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
This is a movie about having the courage to face one's feelings, and to risk intimacy, fully knowing and being known by another person.
| Original Score: 4/5
Spirituality and Practice
A lovely-looking film that captures Forster's scorn for individuals tethered by class distinctions and conformity.
Movieline
Without [Helena Bonham Carter], A Room with a View would have been merely a Masterpiece Theater litany of ripe character actors spouting the king's English. With her, it breathes like a newlywed on honeymoon.
