Discover What’s Streaming On: The new Persuasion movie on Netflix is not good. I’m not disputing this point, which has already been made by many a critic according to the 32 percent rating on Rotten ...

Whether you were delighted or disgusted by Netflix’s Persuasion trailer, surely you must be a little curious about the streamer’s take on Jane Austen’s last novel, which is coming to Netflix this ...

Who is Netflix’s Persuasion for? Jane Austen diehards will find it shallow, even disrespectful. Lovers of regency romance and its aesthetic conventions will find it dull. It is neither a faithful ...

This film opens with a modern day vibe to the old school literary premise as Anne revels in being single. She’s simultaneously liberated and frustrated, though. It’s such a contemporary version of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It is often said that if you're a '5' in London, you're a '10' in Bath," one character says, in complete earnest, near the ...

A common modern-movie dilemma: You take on some well-known intellectual property (IP), reckoning that the fans of the original will deliver you a ready-made audience. Then, if you bowderlize, ...

19th-century feminist Jane Austen was one of the most groundbreaking novelists of her time, with a literary and cultural impact both then and during the generations that followed — from book clubs in ...

The new adaptation of ” Persuasion, ” coming to Netflix Friday, does not seem to have been made for Jane Austen fans. Her book about the unmarried Anne Elliot, who at 27 is on the edge of spinsterhood ...

Anne Elliot has a modest wardrobe filled with long dresses. She alternates between wearing long sleeves and short puffed ones, but always keeps her accessories — a charm necklace and black boots — ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 From the Wine Mom Moments (TM) to the cringe-worthy, anachronistic slang, this Jane Austen adaptation is one for the books ... in the worst way possible.