Persuasion

"There is something smug and misconceived and unpersuasive about it."

"(It is) fun and contemporary, but also suffused with the deep longing of its iconic heroine."

"Johnson’s Anne Elliot doesn’t just break the fourth wall in this film; she hits it with a wrecking ball, scattering the pieces to the indelicate winds."

"Johnson, an otherwise talented actor, is woefully miscast as Anne."

"The problem with Persuasion is that it’s a chaotic mess."

"Dear reader, they have turned Persuasion into a cringe comedy."

"Austen’s delicate plot becomes a dull trudge, and Anne’s fourth-wall-breaking simply makes the roof cave in."

"One of the few things that can be said about this film with certainty is that it will be forgotten quickly."

"Anne Elliot has been given irrepressible spirit and an irreverent sense of irony in Dakota Johnson’s incandescent performance."

"Mia McKenna-Bruce is viciously funny as Anne’s younger sister Mary..."

"Rebuild the fourth wall!"

"This Persuasion chooses to wear its source material like a thin disposable skin, discarding many of the vital organs (brain, heart) and most ideas of subtlety as it goes."

"This version is often tender, funny and even sympathetic to the plight of women in Regency England."