Persuasion (2022)

Matt Roush says...

Seems there will always be an appetite for a new twist on a Jane Austen classic, though director Carrie Cracknell’s take on Persuasion includes anachronistic dialogue and Fleabag-style asides to the camera that have some critics and purists spit-taking their tea and crumpets. Dakota Johnson stars as Austen heroine Anne Elliot, whose attitudes may be ahead of her Regency times but who must navigate a tricky romantic quandary when the suddenly wealthy military hero (Cosmo Jarvis) she once foolishly rejected returns from the Napoleonic Wars. Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding co-stars as her scheming cousin, and the always-welcome Richard E. Grant plays Anne’s clueless father.

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