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Friday, August 3, 2007 12:00 AM

"Becoming Jane"

This misguided movie imagines Jane Austen's life as a genteel, tasteful Harlequin romance.
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, August 3, 2007 05:11 AM

    Fielding

    Given Austen's racy juvenilia, her wit, her wide reading, and the fact that you would be vastly uneducated if you didn't know Fielding, Smollett, Sterne in that period, it's just plain dumb that someone has to introduce her to Tom Jones, and that she's shocked. Reading that in two reviews has put me off the movie completely; it means that the screenwriter and director don't really care about more than surfaces (Empire waistlines, etc.). It's as false to the period as Kate Winslet giving someone the finger in "Titanic."

    —Lev Raphael Read Lev Raphael's other letters

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