Little Dorrit
BBC-1 | BBC | BBC One | Release Date: October 26, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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100
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Little Dorrit is anchored by an extraordinary performance by one of England's best actors. And like "Twist," that central performance is only one of many elements that make Dorrit not only terrific entertainment, but, in some ways, perhaps even better than its source material. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyAubry D'Arminio
Season 1 Review: Dorrit is a gripping whodunit, a grand romance, and a timely rags-to-riches-and-back-again tale of financial corruption. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Add strong performances by a dozen major characters, starting with Claire Foy as Little Dorrit, and you've got the kind of production television is often accused of having abandoned. Read full review
80
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Little Dorrit is the closest TV has to a sure thing: a relatively short-term investment with a satisfyingly large payoff. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: There's so much gaudy talent on display here that those with an appetite for it won't be able to get enough, and Little Dorrit gives them everything they could want in a big, gloriously messy package. Read full review
80
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Andrew Davies, who made 2006's Bleak House one of the best TV shows of the year, crafts another superb script, with characters and incidents squeezing out the sides, just the thing to satisfy close observers, which anyone joining this maxi mini-series should be. Read full review
80
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: Little Dorrit is as rich at the margins as at the center with strange, and strangely believable, characters from almost all levels of society, rendered in quick, firm strokes. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Little Dorrit has so many virtues--indelible performances, stirring pathos, and an emotional and psychological heft unusual for Dickens--that you can forgive its one significant flaw. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: All in all, this is a dynamic, addictive rendition of a complicated novel that catches the spirit of Dickens' "roaring streets" where "the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted and chafed, and made their usual uproar." Read full review
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