Mansfield Park Reviews

| Original Score: B

Wonderful book adaptation with strong female character.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Mansfield Park works because it not only comes from the novel...but also from Austen's letters and journals.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

While this version plays somewhat fast and loose with the original story, and even more so with the heroine's character, it is still much more Jane Austen than not.

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While Mansfield Park doesn't boast the high calibre Hollywood star wattage and gloss of Sense and Sensibility, it offers a more thought-provoking viewpoint.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

...busy nothings add up to motion picture somethings in one of the year's most charming films.

| Original Score: 4/4

Despite such occasional flaws...Mansfield Park is a welcome treat for Austen addicts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A powerful portrait of a determined young woman's quest to remain true to the vastness of her spirit and soul.

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An uneven but ultimately stirring adaptation from Canadian director Patricia Rozema.

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Rozema's thoughtful pacing and deliberately modern spin on the tale keep the rot from setting in.

Full Review | Original Score: short

With its gorgeous cinematography...lovely muted score, and sure-footed performances, especially by Frances O'Connor, Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park sets a new standard for adaptations of Jane Austen's work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

This incarnation of Fanny may not have been what Austen had in mind, but she surely would have approved, for the injection of attitude and smarts makes Mansfield Park a much more wicked and irresistible social satire...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

In this provocative, revisionist adaptation of Jane Austen's third novel, Canadian writer-director Patricia Rozema gives her 19th century heroine, Fanny Price, much of Austen's own confidant, creative personality.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

This is perhaps not Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, but Jane Austen would have probably recognized most of it and would have been amused by the rest.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A fine addition to the filmed Austen canon.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A witty, entertaining film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Mansfield Park is quick and funny, and a refreshing break from period-film stuffiness.

Full of sparkling dialogue, witty asides, and top-drawer performances, Mansfield Park is a social satire wrapped inside a romantic comedy.

Just enough sardonic wordplay pokes through to keep the Jane Austen in this Jane Austen.

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It's smart, heady stuff that only fails at times because it's perhaps too ambitious for its own good...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4