2.5/4

Thompson, Goode and Atwell make for fine screen company, despite [Emma]Thompson's arguable miscasting.

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07/24/08

3/5

Actually lives up to its pedigree, rendered lively with gorgeous scenery and a tart, droll script.

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07/24/08

3/4

[A] lush, bold, intellectual treatment of the Evelyn Waugh novel about Catholicism and nonconformity, which ventures where the fabled '80s miniseries couldn't.

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07/24/08

N/A

You have to admire the way it refrains from seizing the day for a postmodern lecture on the perils of fundamentalism, and confines itself to the disturbing vision of Evelyn Waugh.

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07/24/08

B

Brideshead Revisited is opulent and watchable, yet except for Thompson's acting, it's missing something -- a grander, more ambivalent vision of the England it depicts dying out.

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07/24/08

4/5

A sophisticated and well-acted screen version of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel about the toxic fallout from a Catholicism of sin, sacrifice, guilt, and otherworldliness.

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07/24/08

3/6

If you can let go of your memories of the novel and the outstanding 1981 miniseries, this is enjoyable enough as tasteful melodrama.

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07/24/08

N/A

The film version of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited transforms one of the quintessential novels of the 20th century into one of the grandest, most enriching films of 2008.

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07/23/08

N/A

I recommend the brilliant pessimism of this film to all my readers, who I hope will appreciate the exquisitely rendered truthfulness of the narrative.

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07/23/08

C+

A very handsome period picture....But it's an almost perversely wrongheaded adaptation of the book.

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07/23/08

N/A

I cannot think of another screen adaptation that treats its source with a like indifference, almost contempt.

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07/23/08

2.5/4

This new Brideshead takes a step in the right direction, but it's time some radical writer or filmmaker dared to leave out the dim Julia charade and let Charles and Sebastian play out their Isherwood/Auden Oxford love match to its full.

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07/21/08

N/A

There's room for more than one Brideshead in this far less glamorous day and age.

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07/18/08

N/A

Will disappoint viewers who know Waugh's writing or the Granada production, while a younger audience unfamiliar with either won't care enough about rich Brits between the wars.

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07/16/08

B+

Smart, handsome film-making without the usual summer panoply of special effects and computer generative industry, a picture graced by solid acting and a rich empathy with people who find themselves through religion rather than wealth.

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07/16/08

3/4

For those with an affinity for this kind of movie -- and you know whether this applies to you -- Brideshead Revisited is a worthy, although not superior, motion picture.

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07/15/08

B-

The theme of individual powerlessness in the face of family, religion and other forces is dusted off in this version, and while the production design is impeccable, helmer Jarrold is only sporadically effective in illuminating the novel's dramatic issues

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06/29/08