Austenland
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: August 16, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
18
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreSep 2, 2013
It’s never more than a theme park that isn’t worth the price of admission. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryAug 22, 2013
The movie has an Austen-like plot about an Austen obsessive. And while Hess laboriously checks off so many familiar scenarios...the film doesn’t have so much of what makes Austen transcendent. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 15, 2013
Advancing without a single original idea or surprising moment, Austenland seems torn between poking fun at the British and lampooning Austen’s many American fanatics — a riskier enterprise, considering that they’ll be needed to fill theater seats. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceySep 19, 2013
Somewhere in literary afterlife, dear reader, Jane Austen has just rolled over and reached for her musket. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 29, 2013
Hess has made a classic rookie director mistake: Any spoof has to be at least as smart as the thing it’s spoofing, and this one’s twice as dumb. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Aug 14, 2013
In Austenland, her directorial debut, Hess adapts a 2007 beach book into another broad comedy of caricature. It’s a truly half-assed satire, one whose senseless sensibility seems less informed by the best of English literature than the worst of Saturday Night Live. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 16, 2013
The missed opportunities in Austenland are more numerous than dowry-less sourpusses at a ball in a Jane Austen novel. Read full review
10
The New YorkerAnthony LaneAug 31, 2013
So lazy is the characterization, so hamstrung the plot, and so chronically broad the overacting that the main interest lies in deciding which to block first, your eyes or your ears. [2 Sept. 2013, p.81]
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