- 8
...crisp, suitably witty...
—Ken Fox TV Guide
- 7
...pretty good...
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 6
As period dramas go, this Woman is accessible, but not nearly as delightful as the recent Pride & Prejudice.
— E!
- 6
...an amiable if undemanding adaptation...
—Jessica Winter Village Voice
- 5
...loose and rather limp...
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 5
A wet teabag of a movie...
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club
- 5
...well intentioned and mildly diverting, but in attempting to modernize its story it has lost many of the things that make the original so memorable and not gained much in return.
—Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times
- 5
Nanny McPhee has more erotic sizzle.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 5
...tedious...
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 4
...a shallow effort...
—Ella Taylor LA Weekly
- 4
...as bored with itself as Wilde must have been with the society he lampooned.
—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine
- 4
...a paltry adaptation...
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 4
...a misbegotten adaptation...
—Stephen Holden New York Times
- 4
...a stilted, meandering adaptation...
—Tim Knight Reel
- 4
...a lumbering adaptation...
—Leah Rozen People