Vanity Fair
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings
- Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai
- Summary: Mira Nair's film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackery introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate and calculating heroine Becky Sharp (Witherspoon). (Focus Features)
- Director: Mira Nair
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 16 out of 41
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Mixed: 22 out of 41
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Negative: 3 out of 41
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100The peculiar quality of Vanity Fair, which sets it aside from the Austen adaptations such as "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice," is that it's not about very nice people. That makes them much more interesting.
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75Yet something's missing in director Mira Nair's treatment -- specifically, a point of view about the material, a compelling reason for this historical excavation beyond the fact that Reese Witherspoon makes a convincing Becky Sharp.
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60It's by no means a classic, but the dialogue and high caliber of performances mean you’'ll get your money's worth, especially if you're really into empire waistlines and that infamous English haughtiness.
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38She has been made lovable -- and a Vanity Fair with a lovable Becky Sharp has no reason to exist. It's as if Shakespeare had put Hamlet on Prozac: What's the point?
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GregB.10An extravagant and very well acted retelling of Thackeray's masterpiece of EnglIsh manners and mores at the beginning of the 19th century.
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IlzeS.9Movie was good, I liked everyone in this movie. I think, it
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