Pride and Prejudice

Director: Joe Wright

2005 / 129min / 35mm

Jane Austen’s immortal classic of romantic intrigues among the Hertfordshire gentry gets a savvy shake-up in Wright’s feature filmmaking debut, which provided a star-making lead role to 20-year-old Keira Knightley, playing Elizabeth, the second of the five Bennet sisters.

“Joe Wright’s adaptation of the greatest love story of all time could have been 10 times worse than it is and still landed a spot in my all-time favorite movies. But it’s better than it needs to be: the score rocks, the costumes are amazing, every Bennet sister feels pitch perfect, and Matthew Macfadyen is my favorite Darcy. I will rewatch it twice a year until the day I die.”—Meg West

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