Pride & Prejudice

"Wright’s filmmaking is elegant, vibrant and prudently ostentatious."

Joe Wright should be applauded for delivering a vividly realised Austen adap -- one which confirms Knightley has graduated from the Jackie Bisset of the '00s to this decade's Julie Christie.

Breathes new life into characters and conversations never before quite wholly free from the printed page.

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

Keira's cat-smile suggests such supernal all-knowingness that, with Austen's adapted dialogue (via Deborah Moggach) tripping off her tongue, she comes off as an eighteenth-century Maureen Dowd.

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.

With the earnest, yet simple depiction of love and the gorgeous, dreamy visuals, Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice remains an enduring classic.

Stately, emotional, sumptuous, and perfect in every way.

The big-screen version of Pride & Prejudice doesn't disappoint and may even reach a few young people who normally might not be attracted to a period piece.

Knightley makes for a spunky Lizzie but it's MacFayden's natural glumness that actually makes him quite the perfect Darcy.