Emma (1996)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:34
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This adaptation of the Jane Austen novel focuses on Emma, a meddling but well-meaning 21-year-old, who LOVES to play matchmaker. She's currently obsessed with finding the perfect man for her friend... [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming, Jeremy Northam
Director: Douglas McGrath
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This Emma is light, airy and modern -- surely Austen's funniest work. Full Review |
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While Sense and Sensibility loves subtlety, silence, and space, and Persuasion loves realism, repression, and understatement, Emma loves its star Gwyneth Paltrow and all the colorful scenes she inhabits. Full Review |
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McGrath pokes gentle fun at the over-refinements of privileged gentility, though not without enjoying its trappings and honoring its best aspirations. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Gwyneth Paltrow makes a resplendent Emma, gliding through the film with an elegance and patrician wit that bring the young Katharine Hepburn to mind. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A good Jane Austen adaptation that can be watched over and over.
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3/5 |
Fun, but pales next to the previous year's Clueless.
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Although it is a very fine film, I found the pace a little slow in places as it wandered off the mark. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Slightly fun, but really boring.
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