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Mansfield Park (1999) Rank 5 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Mansfield Park (1999) a score of 2.8595 out of 4
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Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Intelligence and beauty -- and teasing romance -- shape Mansfield Park into a gorgeous, enchanting experience. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
This is an uncommonly intelligent film, smart and amusing too, and anyone who thinks it is not faithful to Austen doesn't know the author but only her plots. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
...busy nothings add up to motion picture somethings in one of the year's most charming films. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Patricia Rozema's ``Mansfield Park'' makes no claim to be a faithful telling of Jane Austen's novel and achieves something more interesting instead. Rozema has chosen passages from Austen's journals and letters, and adapted them to Fanny Price, the heroin ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for TNT RoughCut (Sarah Raskin)TNT RoughCut (Sarah Raskin)
The only fault I found was a lengthy build to the story's political climax (there's a subplot about slavery), after which the film quickly seams up its unravelings and ends. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at TNT RoughCut (Sarah Raskin)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Newsweek (David Ansen)Newsweek (David Ansen)
Rozema's handling of the entangled amours and social gamesmanship at Mansfield Park is delightful and the open-minded moviegoer will have a hard time resisting this stylish and stirring movie. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Newsweek (David Ansen)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Time (Richard Schickel)Time (Richard Schickel)
Well acted, and it achieves a strong, smart, engaging life of its own. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Time (Richard Schickel)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Chris Kaltenbach)Baltimore Sun (Chris Kaltenbach)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Enough of Austen's witty depiction of British society is preserved to keep the viewer pleasantly occupied. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.32 out of 4 stars for Portland Oregonian (Diana Abu-Jaber)Portland Oregonian (Diana Abu-Jaber)
Piquant, playful, and, in many ways, just as appealing as blockbusters such as "Pride and ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Portland Oregonian (Diana Abu-Jaber)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.32 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
The Australian actress Frances O'Connor is a true find. She's as beautiful as the young Barbara Hershey, with a stare that's pensive yet playful, and she puts us in touch with the quiet battle of emotions in Fanny. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for The New York Times (Stephen Holden)The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Stephen Holden)New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Miami Herald (Curtis Morgan)Miami Herald (Curtis Morgan)
The latest and loosest -- in the saucy sense of the word as well -- adaptation of (Austen's) sly comedies of uppercrust manners. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Miami Herald (Curtis Morgan)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Jay Carr)Boston Globe (Jay Carr)
Stylish and arrives at a satisfying cumulative weight, even if it isn't Austen pure. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Boston Globe (Jay Carr)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
O'Connor plays Fanny with an appealingly direct, unflinching gaze. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Why should we keep seeing Austen fresh, through our own, modern eyes? Because she's a writer who has never really left our field of vision. And, as this new Mansfield Park proves again, she never will. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Examiner (Walter Addiego)San Francisco Examiner (Walter Addiego)
What's on the screen may not be a letter-perfect Mansfield Park, but something true to its spirit. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Walter Addiego)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Mansfield Park has always been viewed as Jane Austen's most confounding novel. Scholars are divided over its literary merit, and many Austen-philes prefer to ignore its existence altogether, seeing it as a kind of "black sheep" in the author's catalog of ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Film.com (Ernest Hardy)Film.com (Ernest Hardy)
Although Mansfield Park is an enjoyable film, you can't help but wish that it were as brave, feisty and unconventional as it keeps telling us its heroine is. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Film.com (Ernest Hardy)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Film.com (Robert Horton)Film.com (Robert Horton)
Quick and funny, and a refreshing break from period-film stuffiness. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Film.com (Robert Horton)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for LA Weekly (Hazel-Dawn Dumpert)LA Weekly (Hazel-Dawn Dumpert)
Rozema seems determined to defrill the Austen trend and charge it with a fiercer sort of femininity. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at LA Weekly (Hazel-Dawn Dumpert)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.48 out of 4 stars for Mr. Showbiz (Kevin Maynard)Mr. Showbiz (Kevin Maynard)
"Run mad whenever you choose, but do not faint," Austen wrote in her early journals. Despite its brazen politics, Mansfield Park never goes giddily amok as promised. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Mr. Showbiz (Kevin Maynard)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for TV Guide (Ken Fox)TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
It's an interesting take, and it always holds our interest, but it's finally too ham-fisted to be a completely winning one. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Austen purists may gag, but director Patricia Rozema has managed to crack Mansfield Park , transforming Jane Austen's problematic novel into an engaging bit of entertainment. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Ronnie Scheib)Chicago Reader (Ronnie Scheib)
There's something more than a little perverse about taking one of the most timid, self-effacing heroines in English literature and turning her into a paragon of modern free-spirited womanhood. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Chicago Reader (Ronnie Scheib)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Village Voice (Justine Elias)Village Voice (Justine Elias)
In trying so hard to entertain, ends up sabotaging itself. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Village Voice (Justine Elias)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for USA Today (Andy Seiler)USA Today (Andy Seiler)
Not since Demi Moore lived happily ever after in "The Scarlet Letter" has a filmmaker felt so free to fudge a famous plot. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at USA Today (Andy Seiler)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Variety (Derek Elley)Variety (Derek Elley)
But there's little sense of a longer dramatic arc stretching across the characters: Rozema can't seem to hold a single tone for more than a few minutes, and she has too many other axes to grind besides just getting the story up on the screen. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Variety (Derek Elley)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Greg Muskewitz)eFilmCritic.com (Greg Muskewitz)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
A confusing jumble of historical drama and modern social essay that only serves to cloud the whole field of Jane Austen studies. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Mansfield Park (1999) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for ShowBIZ Data (Lesley Jacobs)ShowBIZ Data (Lesley Jacobs)
Mansfield Park is a soap box from which Rozema seeks to lecture and enlighten us. ...read the complete Mansfield Park movie review at ShowBIZ Data (Lesley Jacobs)
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