Vanity Fair (2018)
Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7

Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Dec 19, 2018
    80
    It’s well-acted all around and paced briskly enough to take up seven hours without filler. There’s nothing particularly ingenious about it; but there’s no looking down on a good story smartly told.
  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Dec 6, 2018
    80
    Olivia Cooke vibrantly inhabits what little soul the ruthlessly opportunistic Becky Sharp possesses in this irreverent seven-part adaptation of the Thackeray classic. [10 - 23 Dec 2018, p.9]
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  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carlos Valladares
    Dec 14, 2018
    75
    Much of the show is a conscious bowdlerization of the epic Thackeray novel. What is lost in the wry and fat prose, the skewering of petty gnat-sized gentry, is regained in the lean performances of the perpetually suffering actors, especially Cooke’s Becky Sharp.
  5. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Dec 20, 2018
    63
    No teeth, no energy, no fun, this Vanity Fair can occasionally feel like a homework assignment.