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Plain 'Jane'new
It is lavishly produced and beautifully decorated, but with its tame story about true love, it comes off as a pile of exquisitely wrapped presents containing last year's gifts.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
08-23-2007 |
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Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
'Becoming Jane': Literary Lovenew
Not quite Austen, but not bad.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
08-17-2007 |
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'Becoming Jane': Austen Transformednew
The film boils all of Austen's various pen-and-ink plots down to their cliche essence and crams them into a single overly familiar narrative.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
08-14-2007 |
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Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
'Becoming Jane': Meet Jane Doenew
Jane Austen could spot a phony, and, as a result, she would not have been happy with this romanticized account of her early years.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
08-10-2007 |
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Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
'Becoming Jane': Austen Chroniclenew
The film sure looks nice, but it could have used a plot.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-09-2007 |
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Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
'Becoming Jane': Austen Powernew
One doubts if Austen was ever halfway to running off to Gretna Green with anyone, but it's easy to suspend the disbelief for the length of a well-drawn fiction, starring an actress of mesmerizing prettiness.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-09-2007 |
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Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
'Becoming Jane': Austen Herself Would Approvenew
The film succeeds, even if it is almost entirely invented, because it captures both the aching romanticism and the cold, hard practicalities of Austen's fiction -- and in a way, it even does Austen one better.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
08-08-2007 |
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Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
