CHICAGO SUN TIMES

Streep was showered with praise for her remarkable double performance, and she deserved it. She is offhandedly contemporary one moment, and then gloriously, theatrically Victorian the next. Read more…

NEW YORK TIMES

The French Lieutenant’s Woman, which opens today at the Little Carnegie Theater, is an astonishingly beautiful film, acted to the elegant hilt by Meryl Streep as the ultimately unreliable Sarah; Jeremy Irons, who looks a lot like the young Laurence Olivier of Wuthering Heights, as Charles Smithson; and by a cast of splendid supporting actors of the sort that only England seems to possess.  Read more…