Movie · 2019 · Drama, Romance · 2h 15m · PG · English
Curator score: 9.3/10 (2.9M ratings)
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Overview
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Ratings
Curator score: 9.3/10
IMDb: 7.8/10
Letterboxd: 4.18/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Metacritic: 91
TMDB: 7.9/10
Director
Greta Gerwig
Production
Columbia Pictures, Regency Enterprises, Pascal Pictures
Cast
Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Jayne Houdyshell, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Rafael Silva, Mason Alban, Emily Edström, Maryann Plunkett, Hadley Robinson, Lonnie Farmer, Charlotte Kinder
Where to watch
Hulu
Curator Review
Verdict
A warm, briskly edited, emotionally generous adaptation that turns a familiar classic into something immediate and alive. It blends sisterhood, ambition, grief, and romance with sharp craft and a distinctly modern pulse.
Best for
viewers who like literary adaptations with strong character work
fans of emotional ensemble dramas
people who enjoy coming-of-age stories about women and creative ambition
audiences who appreciate period films with a contemporary sensibility
Skip if
you want a plot-heavy movie with constant twists
you dislike period settings or literary dialogue
you prefer emotionally detached or minimalist filmmaking
Overview
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation is one of those rare period dramas that feels both lovingly traditional and freshly reimagined. It understands the emotional weather of the March family—playful, competitive, affectionate, wounded—and gives each sister a distinct rhythm without losing the sense of a shared home life. The film’s structure adds momentum and poignancy, making familiar events feel newly charged.
Worth noting
What stands out most is how the movie treats ambition as a form of love and survival. Jo’s artistic restlessness, Amy’s strategic pragmatism, Meg’s domestic yearning, and Beth’s quiet grace all register as valid paths rather than moral lessons. The performances are finely tuned, but the film’s real achievement is its tenderness: it never mocks its characters’ intensity, and it never mistakes sincerity for simplicity.
Bottom line
It is also a beautifully made film in the tactile sense—costumes, interiors, light, and movement all feel alive. The result is a story about growing up that doesn’t flatten adulthood into disappointment; instead, it sees compromise, memory, and creation as part of the same emotional continuum. Few recent films have felt so humane without becoming soft.
Top Letterboxd reviews
sree (5★) · 45568 likes
laurie: we look like a couple
jo: a couple of besties <3
James (Schaffrillas) (4.5★) · 20730 likes
Look all I know is if Timothee Chalamet asked me to marry him I would not fucking hesitate
sophie (5★) · 17307 likes
greta gerwig: i will cast the march sisters perfectly and make them do intense research into their roles, they will embody their characters
also greta gerwig: fuck it, bob odenkirk as the dad
hunter strawberry (3.5★) · 12808 likes
funny how shakespeare has been silent ever since little women came out
Jay (4★) · 12301 likes
need me a timothée chalamet to tell me im not a career failure at 20