Pride and Prejudice Reviews

So why, in no less than five miniseries and two official film adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, have we yet to encounter a satisfying screen Lizzie?

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I just feel like I've seen this so many times.

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In truth, there is little wrong with this film that would not have been excusable if it were the first version in two decades rather than six months. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is competently made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

This latest incarnation of Pride and Prejudice prompts the question: why do we need another version of Jane Austen's classic tale?

Full Review | Original Score: C

It's a fitfully engaging romance, it's just not Pride and Prejudice.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Wright muffles the humor and drama and creates long, draggy stretches while other cast members flounder about in the wings, but Knightley forces certain scenes to spring back to life.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Stilted yet sentimental, the melodrama leaves one feeling more depressed than elated, and Keira Knightley is far too beautiful to be anyone's 2nd choice.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

CliffsNotes version

Full Review | Original Score: C+

This movie was stuffy, boring, cumbersome and all around annoying to me.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Comes across as prim and rigid, a feature bound by a corset.

| Original Score: 2/4

Wright paints by numbers, and often forgets the shading ... Knightley is a tin Lizzie, long on looks but short on depth and ladylike grace.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

With the BBC's 1995 miniseries starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle still regarded as the definitive treatment of the book, it will be an uphill struggle to win audiences to what is neither a faithful rendition nor a very interesting new interpretation.

It's quite 'agreeable,' as the fatuous Mr. Collins would say, but there's something disturbing about a Jane Austen adaptation that uses an ampersand as an official part of its title.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Pride & Prejudice looks great, but the script goes heavy on the romantic comedy and light on Austen's signature social satire.

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I wasn't moved by the romance, but the lush art direction, pretty music and gorgeous cinematography did get to me.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Writer Deborah Moggach's adaptation is sleek but lacks the judiciousness Emma Thompson brought to her terrific screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Any resemblance to scenes and characters created by Miss Austen is, of course, entirely coincidental.

If you're in the mood for a trailer to a Jane Austen theme-park ride, it'll do fine; just forget about consistent adaptation, sane casting or on-target performances.

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There's nothing wrong with the current version that trimming and less devotion to the romance-novel mystique couldn't cure.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Director Wright has replaced Austen's intelligence with the moony melodrama of the Bronte sisters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4