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Pride & Prejudice
Focus Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for some mild thematic element
Starring
Keira Knightley,
Matthew MacFadyen,
Rosamund Pike,
Jena Malone,
Donald Sutherland,
Brenda Blethyn,
Simon Woods,
and
Judi Dench
Keira Knightly stars as Elizabeth Bennet in this classic tale of love and misunderstanding which unfolds in class-conscious England near the close of the 18th century. (Focus Features)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Foreign
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Deborah Moggach
Jane Austen (novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Joe Wright
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 28, 2006
Video: February 28, 2006
Theatrical: November 11, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
127 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Keira Knightley, in a witty, vibrant, altogether superb performance, plays Lizzie's sparky, questing nature as a matter of the deepest personal sacrifice.

100
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
In the end, the finest achievement of Wright's movie is that it fully captures what Martin Amis, writing on Pride and Prejudice, said of Austen: "Money is a vital substance in her world; the moment you enter it you feel the frank horror of moneylessness, as intense as the tacit horror of spinsterhood." All that, and a great love story, too.

100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is well cast from top to bottom; like many British films, it benefits from the genius of its supporting players.

100
USA Today
Claudia Puig
This Pride & Prejudice is a stellar adaptation, bewitching the viewer completely and incandescently with an exquisite blend of emotion and wit.

100
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The appealing Knightley goes in a promising young actress and comes out a star, but the faultless cast of veterans and fresh-faced newcomers imbues every character with flawed and immensely appealing humanity.

100
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Jane Austen's novel has been rejiggered into a jaunty romantic comedy that leaves us as incandescently happy as its characters.

100
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Blissful, blazingly intelligent adaptation.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Deliriously charming.

90
Slate
David Edelstein
This Pride & Prejudice (ampersand and all) a joy to behold.

90
Newsweek
David Ansen
Indoors, it's Jane Austen. Outdoors, this red-blooded, exuberantly romantic version of Pride and Prejudice plays more like Emily Brontë. Purists may object, but most will find this love story irresistible.

90
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
With outstanding performances, including a turn by Judi Dench as the evil Lady Catherine de Bourg, Pride & Prejudice is a joy from start to finish.

90
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Gathers you up on its white horse and gallops off into the sunset. Along the way, it serves a continuing banquet of high-end comfort food perfectly cooked and seasoned to Anglophilic tastes.

90
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
There's something more REAL about this version, more human, more lived-in; though their words may have been penned 200 years ago, when Austen was a young woman writing about her idealized self, this cast and crew nudge the material into the now.

89
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
This fresh adaptation shakes the dust off Jane Austen's early 19th-century novel of manners and gives it a good airing out. The result is a witty and lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.

88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Seeing the splendid new version of Pride & Prejudice can be hazardous to your health: There's a very real danger of swooning.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
At the end, director Wright wraps the whole thing up with a fairy-tale coda more Shakespearean than Austen-tine. Yet it all works.

88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Of Austen's novels, none is more beloved than this one, so it's good to see it once again brought to the screen with the pride which it deserves.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Whatever number it is chronologically on the P&P parade, Wright's film ranks first in verve. Quite simply, it is the essential P&P.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Debera Carlton Harrell
It is historically evocative, visually transporting and an exuberant romantic comedy that adheres to its source while spinning its own artful energy.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Still, the cynosure of all eyes is honest, articulate Elizabeth, her own woman in an era when women belonged to men, and at the same time full of love. Lizzie is the best, and Keira Knightley does right by her.
80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Lord God, can she take control of a scene, dominate a movie, project to the last seat, radiate power and personality unto the rafters. It's a great performance. I love the way Knightley's eyes light with furious intelligence when she cuts the pompous Darcy a new something or other.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Most importantly, the director, script, and cast (rounded out by Judi Dench and well-placed imports Donald Sutherland and Jena Malone) all recognize that Austen is about much more than pretty costumes and knowing looks.

80
Variety
Derek Elley
A movie for the age, and a keeper for the ages, Pride & Prejudice brings Jane Austen's best-loved novel to vivid, widescreen life, as well as making an undisputed star of 20-year-old Keira Knightley.

80
Empire
Angie Errigo
Not as divine as Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility," but engagingly comparable to the Gwyneth Paltrow-starring Emma and vastly superior to Mansfield Park.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Romantic yearning hasn't looked this sexy onscreen in years.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
This Pride & Prejudice isn't minutely faithful to the book -- and for good reason -- but it is authentic where it counts: to the confused, wounded, eager hearts of its lovers.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
This weekend, forget "Jarhead" - two hours of guys playing grab-ass in the shower and no chicks. If you're lucky, you can con your girlfriend into seeing Pride & Prejudice.

70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The present film-makers have retained the essences of the plot and characters but have moved the ambience toward the next stylistic era, romanticism.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The movie flames to life whenever Donald Sutherland moves into frame as the young ladies' relaxed, humorous, and magnificently rueful father.

70
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
If only Knightley had a co-star equal to her here: The 1995 edition of Colin Firth, come to think of it, would have been perfect.

70
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Director Joe Wright coordinates a delightfully cohesive acting ensemble.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The problem here is we never get much more than the pretty, the quaint and the comfortingly familiar. There's a place for such stuff in the world, yes, but that doesn't make it art.

67
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Director Joe Wright's new movie version of Pride and Prejudice is more Gene Kelly than Fred Astaire: more earthy and athletic than balletic.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
This is Austen as chick-lit, not too deep, but with some integrity and the worthy goal of reaching a younger audience by offering a starch-free version of the story.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Handsome and competently acted and prettily shot and all the other things critics say when what they really want to scream is "Aaaaaaaargh! No more Jane Austen adaptations, ESPECIALLY not Pride and Prejudice.

50
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
The moviemakers are accomplished enough to make something coherent out of this tonal mishmash, but I was left with a "was this trip really necessary" feeling for all that.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
Turns Jane Austen's nimble satire into a lumbering gothic romance.


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