100
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Because it is confident of its story and its powers, “Howards End” takes the time to establish itself, to allow its characters the space to demonstrate subtlety and complexity.
Howards End
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- United Kingdom,
- Japan,
- United States
- 1992
- · 140m
Director
James Ivory
Cast
Emma Thompson,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Anthony Hopkins,
Samuel West,
Vanessa Redgrave,
Adrian Ross Magenty
Genre
Drama,
Romance
A saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England on the brink of modernity. The film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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What are critics saying?
100
Washington Post by Rita Kempley
Merchant and Ivory have regathered many of the cast and crew from their earlier films to work on this reproduction to exquisite effect.
100
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
Merchant, Ivory and Jhabvala triumph again with their entertaining, richly textured film. [13 March 1992]
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The splendid cast embodies the characters so fully that the events actually seem to be happening to them, instead of unfolding from a screenplay.
90
The New Yorker
A handsome and intelligent piece of work: a faithful, well-paced, and carefully crafted dramatization of a very good story.
90
Variety
Perhaps the best film made during the 30-year partnership of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory.
90
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Incisively witty, provocative and acted to perfection, this sublime entertainment is a career peak for producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
90
The New Yorker by Terrence Rafferty
A handsome and intelligent piece of work: a faithful, well-paced, and carefully crafted dramatization of a very good story.
90
Variety by Staff(Not credited)
Perhaps the best film made during the 30-year partnership of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory.
78
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
The performances in this costume drama are wonderful.
70
TV Guide Magazine
The filmmakers have allowed themselves an overlong 140 minutes in order to preserve as much of the plot as possible, but they have bypassed many of the novel's key ideas and ironies.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Staff(Not credited)
The filmmakers have allowed themselves an overlong 140 minutes in order to preserve as much of the plot as possible, but they have bypassed many of the novel's key ideas and ironies.
63
LarsenOnFilm by Josh Larsen
Overall, this is an uneven work of adaptation.
60
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is the apotheosis of Classics Illustrated filmmaking, aiming at nothing more than tasteful reduction, and the fact that it's done so well here doesn't mean that it's necessarily worth doing.
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