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'Vanity' Becomes Her

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040903
Author:Michael O'Sullivan

WITH HER strangely modern, saucily jutting jaw line and Southern- belle sweetness masking a crackling intellect, Becky Sharp is portrayed perfectly by Reese Witherspoon as the pretty, opportunistic and contradictory heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." In an engaging, propulsive performance as the strong-willed, social-climbing English governess who aspires to enter high society by any means, Witherspoon moves director Mira Nair's version of Thackeray's social satire forward at a good clip, making Becky's rising and falling fortunes an intensely watchable spectator sport.

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