With only a few scenes to really show what she can do, she makes the most of them, showing she's more than just a skilled comic actress. (indiewire.com)
Witherspoon has proven herself a gifted comic actress in Election and last year's Legally Blonde, but her performance and charm here are largely diminished by the tedium of the material. (markreviewsmovies.com)
Love & Friendship, based on the little - known Lady Susan, is as clever and seamless a marriage of source material and sensibility as one would expect, and gives Kate Beckinsale — a gifted comic actress who somehow ended up in a latex - fetish vampire franchise — the kind of role she too rarely gets. (film.avclub.com)