Sense And Sensibility (1995) Critic Reviews

It's an exuberant, well- crafted film that gets the audience involved on a gut level even before the opening credits are over.Read the full review

This rapturous romance is not only laugh-out-loud funny but demonstrates how little humankind has evolved in matters of the heart.Read the full review

Crucially for such an elaborately dressed production, the characters all come thoroughly alive with their ready wits and pulsing emotions, overcoming the two-century gap with seeming effortlessness.Read the full review

Grandly entertaining...matches the Austen-based "Clueless" for sheer run. [13 Dec 1995]Read the full review

Thompson has had the good sense and sensitivity to get Austen right, while letting Winslet steal the show.Read the full review

A wonderful motion picture, even given the weaknesses of the source material.Read the full review

Ang Lee's film of the Jane Austen novel slavishly follows the gospel according to Merchant Ivory, swooning over characters declaiming modestly while surrounded by topiary.Read the full review

Lee, who made the upbeat "Eat Drink Man Woman," plays this double love story as brightly as possible. There's peppy social satire in the smallest of gestures.Read the full review

Part of the problem is that Taiwan-born Lee, though he does a more-than-credible job of directing, isn't sharp on the nuances of British behavior.Read the full review