The Jane Austen Book Club
The Jane Austen Book Club Image
See the trailer
Metascore
61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

Your Score
0 out of 10
Rate this:
  • Starring: Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Kathy Baker
  • Summary: Six book-club members, six Austen books, and six story-lines are interwoven over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings, and wisdom about their own trajectories within Austen's beloved narratives. (Sony Pictures Classics)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 28
  3. Negative: 1 out of 28
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    Chick Flick indeed! Guys, take your best buddy to see this movie. Tell him, "It's really cool, dude, even though there aren't any eviscerations."
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Tasha Robinson
    75
    Overall, The Jane Austen Book Club is an admirable mix of heady and fluffy, the kind of wish-fulfillment fantasy that needn’t make filmgoers ashamed of what they wished for.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    60
    Quite a nice little relationship comedy-drama, but essentially for an audience of what the French charmingly call ‘women of a certain age’. Totally not the Superbad set, then.
  4. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    It's almost impossible for a movie to go irrevocably wrong during the opening credits, but the ceaselessly irritating The Jane Austen Book Club does just that.

See all 28 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. SteveT.
    9
    A classy adaptation of a highly readable novel. High marks to all involved.
  2. JorgeM.
    8
    I did not read the book, but as a guy I enjoyed the film sooo much. Emily Blunt rules!
  3. DuaneD.
    7
    If you're expecting a great movie you'll be disappointed. But the plot is clever, the dialogue is amusing and the acting is better than this film deserves. It's entertaining and usually that's enough.… Expand
  4. PatC.
    1
    A very boring self satisfied and pretentious film.

See all 7 User Reviews

Trailers

Current Movie Releases

Full List »
  1. Star Trek Into Darkness
    Metascore: 72
  2. Iron Man 3
    Metascore: 62
  3. 42
    Metascore: 62
  4. Fast & Furious 6
    Metascore: 61
  5. Evil Dead (2013)
    Metascore: 57
  6. The Great Gatsby
    Metascore: 54
  7. Oblivion
    Metascore: 54
  8. Pain & Gain
    Metascore: 43
  9. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    Metascore: 41
  10. The Host
    Metascore: 35
  11. The Hangover Part III
    Metascore: 31
  12. Tyler Perry's Temptation
    Metascore: 27
  13. Scary Movie 5
    Metascore: 11
All Current Movies »