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01/01/00
Emma (1996)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:34
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This adaptation of the Jane Austen novel focuses on Emma, a meddling but well-meaning 21-year-old, who LOVES to play matchmaker. She's currently obsessed with finding the perfect man for her friend... [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming, Jeremy Northam
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Reviews for Emma
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04/12/02
Despite my lack of Austen education, I found the film to be thoroughly engaging and surprisingly touching, so I can only imagine how pleased a true Austen-ite may be with Emma.
01/01/00
Douglas McGrath's new adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma has certainly captured its elegantly comic possibilities. nd much of the credit must go to McGrath's casting of the eminently luminous Gwyneth Paltrow as the title character.
01/01/00
Vivid cautionary tale for well-intentioned do-gooders.
08/28/02
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01/01/00
Top CriticEmma is delightful, a breezy romance comedy of complication and confusion, with Gwynneth Paltrow a winning delight as the titular Ms. Woodhouse, meddling in the romantic lives of her friends and associates.
11/07/02
Gwyneth Paltrow makes a resplendent Emma, gliding through the film with an elegance and patrician wit that bring the young Katharine Hepburn to mind.
05/20/03
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05/14/03
Paltrow is smashing.
01/01/00
Top CriticFun, but pales next to the previous year's Clueless.
04/21/03
While Sense and Sensibility loves subtlety, silence, and space, and Persuasion loves realism, repression, and understatement, Emma loves its star Gwyneth Paltrow and all the colorful scenes she inhabits.
12/06/04
Pure movie joy.
11/14/02
No review available.
07/07/05
It is Paltrow who brings this film to life.
06/05/02
It's not difficult to enjoy the genteel amusements Emma provides even while wishing its virtues were less wholly on the surface.
02/14/01
Top CriticIt's still fun, but we devotees of the novelist's dry, incisive social commentary will find the bright-hued farce a poor substitute...Nevertheless, Emma has much to recommend it, not the least of which is seeing a major actress in the making.
01/01/00
This Emma is light, airy and modern -- surely Austen's funniest work.
04/09/05
Enjoy Emma, a bit of brightness in a summer of explosions.
04/17/02
No review available.
12/22/02
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