Sense and Sensibility 1995

Critics score:
98 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Susan Stark, Detroit News: It's bliss. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: We need no further proof that this material is ageless. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: I can't say I remembered this 1995 feature too clearly a couple of days later; but I certainly had a good time as I watched it. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The sensibility may be a bit off, but there is more than enough sense involved in this mid-Atlantic Austen to make up the difference. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Told with deft skill and a pleasantly humorous romantic touch. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sense and Sensibility is an enjoyable film, and yet it left me somehow unsatisfied. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: An exuberant, well- crafted film that gets the audience involved on a gut level. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Thompson's script manages the neat trick of preserving the necessary niceties and decorum of civilized behavior of the time while still cutting to the dramatic quick. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Demonstrates how little humankind has evolved in matters of the heart. Read more