Sense and Sensibility
BBC | Release Date: November 30, -0001
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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11
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0
Negative:
0
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100
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: This two-part production expands and opens the story without diminishing the charm or appeal of Austen's original or pushing it past her socially constrained boundaries. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: This Sense and Sensibility is truer not only to Austen's narrative, it more successfully captures the quiet precision of her singular mind--she was the master of finding poetry in domestic detail, and for that, the small screen is much better suited than the large. Read full review
90
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: It lacks the star power (Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet) of Ang Lee's 1995 Oscar winner. But Austen's characters are so enduring and endearing in their virtues, vanities and passionate follies that they don't require movie stars to bring them to life. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLaurence Vittes
Season 1 Review: The production is handsome in the dreamy BBC style, and writer Andrew Davies has done his usual efficient distillation job, including adding a few imaginative touches involving galloping horses and nubile young bodies that would have surprised Austen. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Austen's simple tales of love -- deferred, nearly derailed but eventually and inevitably triumphant -- hold up extremely well, and this latest "Sense & Sensibility" has done a splendid job casting its various roles, despite an inevitable wattage deficit compared with the most recent theatrical version. Read full review
80
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: Expert casting deepens this version. Without stars as these youthful Dashwood sisters, the men are on equal footing. Read full review
70
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: This well-intentioned Sense gets the job done. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: It never quite dazzles, even as it impresses, and it misses some of Austen's ironic turns. But this is certainly a worthy adaptation, summoning all that is enduring about Austen. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteJim Heinrich
Season 1 Review: The movie--as Jane Austen might have described it--is an amiable entertainment. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: We surely didn’t need another filmed version of Austen’s first published novel--not after Ang Lee’s sublime adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility” 13 years ago--but we are content enough to have this one. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: Nothing shameful here, but nothing either to prize it above Ang Lee’s marvelous 1995 version. This new Sense is, in fact, somewhat of a drag. Read full review
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