Pride & Prejudice (2005) Critic Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie is well cast from top to bottom; like many British films, it benefits from the genius of its supporting players.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Deliriously charming.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

This Pride & Prejudice is a stellar adaptation, bewitching the viewer completely and incandescently with an exquisite blend of emotion and wit.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

Jane Austen's novel has been rejiggered into a jaunty romantic comedy that leaves us as incandescently happy as its characters.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Keira Knightley, in a witty, vibrant, altogether superb performance, plays Lizzie's sparky, questing nature as a matter of the deepest personal sacrifice.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

This Pride & Prejudice (ampersand and all) a joy to behold.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

Variety | Derek ElleyAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

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