Jane Eyre graduates from required reading to accomplished cinema. It may come as no surprise that I am not the world’s leading expert, nor am I the world’s biggest fan, of period English chick lit, ...

The candlelight flickers exquisitely even as the passions are slow to ignite in this spare, shrewdly acted but not especially vital retelling of "Jane Eyre." From the 1944 Joan Fontaine-Orson Welles ...

Dramatic adaptations of Char­lotte Brontë's Jane Eyre tend to go for romantic embroidery and Gothic grandilo­quence. But the new movie version, directed by Cary Fuku­naga, feels pared down in all ...

Cary Joji Fukunaga's extravagantly gothic adaptation of Jane Eyre starred Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender as the central couple. Released in March, the film was largely out of the running when ...