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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe stop-the-presses news from The House of Mirth is the number of fine performances from people you never knew had it in them.
- 100Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe House of Mirth is not one of those teacup and doily movies; it's harsh and disturbing. Davies does superlatively right by Wharton. There's blood on the walls.
- 91Portland OregonianShawn LevyPortland OregonianShawn LevyAnderson, possessed of an eerily Edwardian aspect, is superb, luminous and knowing and convincingly proud and desperate as the situation requires.
- 90Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanLeisurely yet streamlined film, brilliantly adapted by British filmmaker Terence Davies from Edith Wharton's most powerful novel.
- 90Dallas ObserverBill GalloDallas ObserverBill GalloDavies has nailed Wharton's bitter satire of the flights and follies of New York society in the Gilded Age, and leading lady Gillian Anderson shows dazzling range in her portrayal of the book's doomed heroine.
- 90Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe cast as a whole is astonishing--especially Gillian Anderson as Lily and Dan Aykroyd in his finest role to date.
- 90SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekAnderson's Lily is the kind of heroine who earns our protectiveness by never begging for it; it's an astonishing performance.
- 88Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrThere was little mirth or innocence in the world that Wharton was able to write her way out of (she was much happier living in Paris), and Davies and his leading lady lift the silks to reveal it as the minefield it was.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickAnderson, in her first major non-Scully film role, is lethally miscast.