More of a Brontë girl

IndieWire's The Playlist has chosen Michael Fassbender as its Man of the Year 2011. His role as Mr Rochester is not forgotten:

First up was Cary Fukunaga's "Jane Eyre," not Fassbender's first brush with Bronte; he was previously attached to star in John Maybury's aborted version of "Wuthering Heights," opposite Abbie Cornish a couple of years ago. But he couldn't be more suited to play Mr. Rochester; chilly yet passionate, prickly yet tragic, and his chemistry with Mia Wasikowska's Jane was impressive. (Oliver Lyttelton)

The Los Angeles Times praises Mia Wasikowska, who

was excellent going through her own stages of repression and rebirth as Jane Eyre earlier this year (Betsy Sharkey)

Jane Eyre is actually one of the films of the year chosen by Contact Music:

9. JANE EYRE
Overlooked at awards time, this is easily the best-yet adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel. The first-rate cast includes Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench and Jamie Bell. (Rich Cline)

The film is also part of Sky Movies' Top 20 Films of 2011:

9: Jane Eyre
"Whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want"
While we'll admit we're a bit partial to the ubiquitous Michael Fassbender over here at Sky Movies, it's really Mia Wasikowska who is the standout here. The Alice in Wonderland star is the perfect blend of shy and brave, that passionate brooding clearly forming behind her calm, controlled expression.
The moors look lovely too. A much easier watch than that other Brontë film out this year, Wuthering Heights.

The Wall Street Journal doesn't include the film on its list of the 10 best films of the year but says it was impressive.

Some of the also-rans were greatly impressive in their own right. They include "Another Earth," "A Dangerous Method," "Drive," "Happy Happy," "Incendies," "Jane Eyre," "Le Havre," "Like Crazy," "Margin Call," "Melancholia," "The Names of Love," "Senna," "The Skin I Live In," "Shame," "Super 8," "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Win Win." (Joe Morgenstern)

News Room America confirms that Dario Marianelli's soundtrack will be one of the 97 Oscar contenders (by the way, the film is also in 256 Feature Films eligible for the 2011 Best Film Academy Award).

A Chicago Tribune writer shares a lovely Jane Eyre-related Christmas memory:

Nara Schoenberg, reporter: It was Christmas break, there was a fire in the fireplace, and I was about 12 years old. I got out "Jane Eyre," reached the sad part, and burst into tears. I don't know if it was the moment, the book, or tween hormones, but I just sobbed and sobbed. I felt very grand and tragic to have been so affected by a book, and maybe I was. I've cried at books since, but never like that.

Yesterday a journalist claimed that Lisbeth Salander was a modern-day Brontë heroine and today it's Rooney Mara, the actress that plays her, who admits the following to the Irish Times:

“I was a gloomy kid. I’ve always been a little dark. I’ve always been a loner, off reading by myself.” Emily Dickinson poems? “No,” she smiles. “I’ve always been more of a Brontë girl.” (Tara Brady)

Un Mundo Cultural reviews Jane Eyre 2011 in Spanish and Shoujo Café writes in Portuguese about Jane Eyre 1997. Knjige i limunada posts in Croatian about Wuthering Heights.