Ang Lee’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novel respects the timeless material while bringing a contemporary energy and humour to the tale.

| Jun 21, 2023

It is a gem. Miss Austen’s sly humor is everywhere present but never caricatured.

| Apr 25, 2022

Spirited and luminous romantic film.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 15, 2022

Screenwriter Thompson and director Ang Lee maintain a rare balance. The actors, as well as the writer and director, constantly let us know that they know better than these characters.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 25, 2022

I just love this story about these sisters

| Feb 7, 2021

Filmmaker Ang Lee, working from Thompson's screenplay, delivers an exceedingly (and often excessively) deliberate drama that's rarely as engrossing or involving as one might've expected (and hoped)...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2020

In Austen's world of amorous imbroglios, overflowing with misunderstandings, betrayals, and decisions bound by duty and honor, upper-crust affairs have never felt so riveting.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 24, 2020

This movie, made with love and wit, reminds us how much charm, liveliness, passion, good sense--and sensibility--Jane Austen provides.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 27, 2019

The decision to hire Taiwan's Ang Lee to direct this adaptation of Jane Austen's first novel was truly inspired.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 27, 2019

A beautifully-crafted, witty, moving film likely to overcome even the stiffest Austen prejudice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2019

The film's true strength is how it deals primarily in emotional revelations that dip and flow with such surety that an eidetic memory of every twist and turn isn't necessary.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 28, 2018

It sounds heretical, but the key to the movie's success is the fact that Thompson has made a number of improvements on Austen's original.

| Aug 16, 2018

Through Emma Thompson's cogent screenplay and her deeply wrought performance as the more restrained sister, Elinor Dashwood, the film makes eloquent good sense.

| May 3, 2018

Elinor, in other words, is a performance, but it is a performance that issues intimately from Thompson's real character, as all good performances do.

| Nov 15, 2017

This exquisite endeavor remains the finest Jane Austen adaptation to date.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 21, 2015

This is as lively as costume dramas get.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 4, 2015

Luminously brings to life Austen's vision of the dance of the sexes.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

A lush and witty telling of Jane Austen's novel.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2011

A stylish, witty and substantial adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2009

For once, Thompson turns in a gimmick-free performance, and the rest of the actors range from fine to fabulous.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2009