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Review: Dakota Johnson is bewitching in Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion'

Dakota Johnson is nothing less than enchanting in "Persuasion," director Carrie Cracknell's modern-in-attitude adaptation of Jane Austen's 200-year-old novel.

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Dakota Johnson’s love life as Fifty Shades of Grey actress stars in Netflix's Persuasion

The star, who gained notoriety after her role in the 50 Shades of Grey franchise, is starring in the Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion where she plays a hopeful romantic

Daily Mirror

Exes, alcohol and loose historical licence: why Netflix's Persuasion is Jane Austen via Fleabag

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot structure. It follows the second-chance romance of Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) and Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) through almost exactly the same beats and events as the book.

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Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne

To begin with a perhaps quintessentially Jane Austen question: Which of these two do you prefer?

Los Angeles Times

‘Persuasion’: Breezy romance updates Jane Austen novel with modern language and rhythms

Likable Dakota Johnson stars as the 19th century heroine reunited with the suitor she jilted.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Dakota Johnson Brings a Modern Spark to ‘Persuasion’

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 and regretting having been persuaded to give up her true love years earlier because…

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Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

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Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

The Independent UK

Dakota Johnson feels 'incredibly lucky' to star in 'dream' Jane Austen film

It's the Summer of Dakota as Fifty Shades Star Johnson stars in Cha Cha Real Smooth and the updated adaptation of Jane Austen's love story Persuasion - and she says she bares her soul in every role

Daily Mirror

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Independent UK

Persuasion review – a travesty of Jane Austen

Theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s ham-fisted adaptation misses the naunces of the author’s writing and opts instead for romcom sassiness

The Guardian - UK

Persuasion by Jane Austen audiobook review – Juliet Stevenson stars in this reading of ‘the perfect novel’

Actors including Tim Brierley and Sorcha Cusack narrate this version of the great writer’s final novel originally created for radio

The Guardian - UK

Persuasion film review: Just so tame

Modern Austen adaptations have done justice to the author’s wit. This one, not so much

Evening Standard

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

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Persuasion review – Dakota Johnson looks the part as Jane Austen gets Fleabagged

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

Daily Mirror

Chris Martin reveals how Dakota Johnson helped make Coldplay shows fun for deaf audience

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed how Dakota Johnson has helped him improve concerts for deaf and hard of hearing audience members thanks to a gift she gave him

The Guardian - UK

A look under the bonnet: why are we still so obsessed with the Regency era?

Whether it’s the new Persuasion adaptation or the counterfactuals of Bridgerton and, er, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we just can’t seem to shake Jane Austen’s world of dances and drawing rooms

The Independent UK

New on Netflix in July 2022: Every movie and TV series being added to streaming service

Full list of every title being added in next 31 days

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Evening Standard

From Stranger Things, to Persuasion, to The Gray Man: Everything that’s coming to Netflix in July

It might be the holiday season, but Netflix isn’t taking a breather

The Independent UK

New on Netflix in July 2022: Every movie and TV series being added this month

Full list of every title being added in next 31 days

The Independent UK

New on Netflix in July 2022: Every movie and TV series being added

Full list of every title being added in next 31 days

The Independent UK

Dakota Johnson responds to viral video of her ‘noticing’ Johnny Depp’s injured finger

Footage resurfaced during Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial

Daily Mirror

Dakota Johnson says making Fifty Shades was a 'psychotic' and 'crazy' experience

Dakota Johnson starred alongside Jamie Dornan in the film adaption of Fifty Shades of Grey, with her having opened up about her experience working with author E.L James on the project

The Independent UK

Dakota Johnson says HBO should have ‘warned us’ about portrayal of grandmother Tippi Hedren in The Girl

Johnson said her grandmother had been ‘reminded of everything she went through, and it was heartbreaking’

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Dakota Johnson Spilled 50 Shades Tea In A New Interview I’m Truly Gagged By This Information

She said filming the movies was "mayhem all the time" in a spicy new interview.

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