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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumFor a visual bonus, Hugh Dancy appears in bike shorts as the lone male Jane-ite.
- 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.
- 75Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe entire enterprise ultimately seems designed to turn Austen into a self-help guru.
- 75USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigThis is Austen lite, but pleasantly so. You can hardly fault a movie that fashions itself around a consummate writer whose keen sense of humor and gift for fully realized characters have resulted in countless screen adaptations.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe film's characters are lively, the women all look terrific (the guys do too, for that matter), and its many romantic story threads weave into artfully told tales of love lost and found.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyCast is first-rate all around, unafraid to play up the annoying, insensitive or self-pitying aspects of their nonetheless likeable characters.
- 70Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoLos Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoSwicord has a playful sense of humor and a good ear for dialogue, and the movie pleasantly accomplishes what it set out to accomplish.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe film comes across like a soap opera and there are too many characters and storylines for any one of them to grab the heart and imagination. The film isn't painful but it is disappointing.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoicePerfectly pleasant, perfectly undistinguished adaptation of a market-driven novel about six Sacramento lovelies trying to mend their stalled or broken lives while massaging each other's feet.
- 50The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThere's no subtext to The Jane Austen Book Club, just a skim across the books' surface that winds up re-shelving a great author into the self-help section.