Films about poets have a poor reputation, most of them – from Dennis Price as The Bad Lord Byron 60 years ago to Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath six years back – being dull and risible, though a couple of performances have been rather good, most... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Costume drama has an image problem. For many viewers, the very genre is inherently trivial, fixated on surface beauty and reassuring nostalgia. I admit I often incline to this prejudice, suspicious at the faintest whiff of Quality Street. Full Article at The Independent

Oscar-winning writer-director Jane Campion ventures back to the early 19th century to compose this emotionally-wrought valentine to John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne. Full Article at Shropshire Star