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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

This is not one of those delightful movies based on a Jane Austen novel. It is about hard realists, constrained in a stifling system and using whatever weapons they can command.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Noel MurrayAdd Critic to Favorites

Thoroughly populist and middlebrow, full of all the high wigs, thick powder, perfect diction, and straightforward dialogue that define bodice-ripping prestige pictures about silently suffering souls.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Even surrounded by all this quality work, Ralph Fiennes, who plays William Cavendish, the fifth duke of Devonshire, the most powerful man in England next to the king, walks off with the picture.Read the full review

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