Vanity Fair
Focus Features | Release Date: September 1, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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16
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22
Negative:
3
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38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
She has been made lovable -- and a Vanity Fair with a lovable Becky Sharp has no reason to exist. It's as if Shakespeare had put Hamlet on Prozac: What's the point? Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
I wonder if anything could have made this misfire work. Read full review
10
SalonCharles Taylor
There may be filmmakers whose own vision is vast enough to take on Thackeray's, but Mira Nair isn't one of them. Her new film of Vanity Fair is a disaster. Scene by scene and moment to moment, it's a woeful misreading of the book. Read full review
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