Pride & Prejudice

128 minutes | Rated PG

Jane Austen's 1813 novel of five sisters negotiating social marriages in rural Hertfordshire gets a kicky new hairdo from the producers who brought you Love Actually. Keira Knightley makes a feisty Elizabeth Bennet, and Bond girl Rosamund Pike shows respectable range as Elizabeth's doubtful, compromised older sister, Jane. Matthew Macfadyen makes a bland and sulky Darcy, but the movie flames to life whenever Donald Sutherland moves into frame as the young ladies' relaxed, humorous, and magnificently rueful father. Joe Wright directed; with Brenda Blethyn, Simon Woods, Rupert Friend, Tom Hollander, and Judi Dench. By J.R. Jones