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Apr 3, 2015 · A handsomely designed period film with a screenplay by Emma Thompson that seeks to dramatize John Ruskin’s unhappy marriage to a younger woman as a kind of feminist fairy tale.
Effie Gray Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall. With churning performances and a terrific recreation of the period, the film is...
Oct 9, 2014 · The film, which boasts the first original screenplay written by Emma Thompson, examines the troubled relationship between eminent Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his younger wife Euphemia ...
- Geoffrey Macnab
Apr 2, 2015 · Bad marriages don’t get much stranger than that of the 19th-century British art critic John Ruskin to Effie Gray, his first and (unsurprisingly) only wife.
- Richard Laxton
Effie Gray has received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 42%, based on 79 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Effie Gray benefits from its strong cast, elevating a period drama that doesn't strike quite as many narrative sparks as it could."
Apr 2, 2015 · Los Angeles Times Film Critic. Genteel almost but not quite to a fault, “Effie Gray” is the decorous treatment of a story that shocked Victorian England: the romantic triangle of critic John...