Rotten
The crucial central roles go wanting.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Great Expectations
Prepare for a life of great expectations.
2012 · 2h 8m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Mike Newell
Overview
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is skillfully made and adeptly performed; even so it doesn't really add anything to the canon.
Annlee Ellingson, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
This Great Expectations is an absorbing addition to the roster of Dickens films that continues our 21st-century fascination with the worlds created by a 19th-century storyteller.
Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Director Mike Newell approaches the sprawling bildungsroman with a stiff formalism, sacrificing all cinematic excitement for the sake of exalting great performances.
Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic
Fresh
Honors the source while making some small but significant alterations.
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer
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