Vanity Fair (review)William Makespeace Thackeray's beloved novel gets another filmic adaptation, and if the sprawling lushness of its epic length is lost in the reduction to two and a half hours, that's more than made up for by wickedly witty humor, sumptuous visuals, and the delightfully impish Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde) as heroine Becky Sharp. Director Mira Nair -- no stranger to pointed but affectionate social satire; she made the delicious Monsoon Wedding -- revels in Thackeray's lampooning of genteel class warfare, spreading upper- share
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Fri Sep 17 04, 11:07PM posted in: reviews by MaryAnn Johanson infoMPAA: rated PG-13 for some sensuality/partial nudity and a brief violent image viewed at a private screening with an audience of critics official site IMDb relatedbloggyprevious post: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (review) next post: Wimbledon (review) |









