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The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...above all an exercise in wit." more... B   Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder "...resonates and inspires rapid-fire bouts of laughter..." more... B- E! Online "...too, well, wild." more... C   Film Journal International David Noh "...ultimately so much less than what was afforded by Anthony Asquith’s definitive, if almost suffocatingly stagy, 1952 version." more... C   Hollywood Reporter David Hunter "...feeble..." more... C- New York Post Jonathan Foreman "...enough...brilliance shines through to make even this compromised Earnest a comic delight." more... B- New York Times Stephen Holden "...a reasonably entertaining costume comedy." more... C+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...it's just a tad this side of being overproduced..." more... B- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)