Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Screen Gems | Release Date: February 5, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
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7
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20
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 4, 2016
Director Burr Steers...does a nifty job of rocketing from period-piece romance to gory bloodshed, with sprinkles of dark humor here and there. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisFeb 3, 2016
The result should appeal to Austen aficionados and horror hounds alike—which is not a sentence you get to write too often. Read full review
67
HitfixDrew McWeenyFeb 3, 2016
What is most impressive about the final film, adapted for the screen and directed by Burr Steers, is that it gets the Pride and Prejudice side of things right, and that's what matters most. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMoira Macdonald and Soren AndersenFeb 4, 2016
The whole thing, for me, never got past its one-joke premise. Zombies in Austenland! Funny! But … then what? Why, then … More hacking and whacking and cutting and cleaving and heaving (as in bosoms in those Empire-waist frocks); it’s all a horror fan could wish for. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTom RussoFeb 4, 2016
Writer-director Burr Steers delivers a screen mash-up that’s generally done in the right, warped spirit. It lampoons Austen cleverly enough at points, without winking any harder than needed. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchSarah Bryan Miller Feb 4, 2016
The zombie scenes are startling, but only PG-13 horrifying. That will probably be just fine with most Jane Austen fans. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 4, 2016
For all the splurch and head-lopping, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is monotonal. It turns its action sequences into a noisy blur. Read full review
60
Total FilmStephen KellyFeb 10, 2016
For the most part a surprisingly fun, bloody take on Jane Austen’s classic – but it does turn stale as the final reckoning approaches. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 6, 2016
The novelty of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies wears thin in the last third: How is it that the threat of a zombie apocalypse is always more thrilling than the event itself? But Riley and James help carry the picture to the finish line. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghFeb 4, 2016
The zombification of Austen’s material is frequently funny and sometimes clever, but the film stumbles hard when it loses sight of just how ridiculous it is. Read full review
58
ConsequenceBlake GobleFeb 4, 2016
A comedy of manners and femininity gets bisected by gnarly effects, and the two-tone approach works in its way. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartFeb 4, 2016
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a pretty silly idea. So why on Earth is this movie, based on the satirical book by Seth Grahame-Smith, not having more fun? Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 4, 2016
Compared with other Jane Austen movies, it isn’t much, but compared with other zombie apocalypse movies, it’s an intelligent, literate effort. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 4, 2016
Funny? Sometimes. Scary? Almost never. PP&Z spins merrily and menacingly along for about half an hour. Bad luck that the movie's running time is 107 minutes. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerFeb 3, 2016
The movie feels bloodless, and not just because the gore is muted and computerized to stay within the boundaries of a PG-13 rating. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesFeb 3, 2016
It is a truth universally acknowledged, at least among Janeites, that we’ll spend long hours scouring every streaming service out there, hungering for a corseted drama to watch. In that respect at least, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is fresh meat, if a tough cut. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineRichard Scott LarsonFeb 3, 2016
The juxtaposition of courtship and violence is the film's one true coup, but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies still mistakes weaponry for agency. Read full review
50
VarietyAndrew BarkerFeb 2, 2016
Tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt substantial audiences, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is in fact a moderately entertaining film, not deficient in old-fashioned costume drama when it pleases, nor in the power of being clever where it chooses, but awkward and unsatisfying. Read full review
42
The PlaylistRuss FischerFeb 4, 2016
It is shriekingly loud but never surprising; goofy, but rarely funny. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 8, 2016
The best thing about the movie is that you don’t have to invest a lot of time into seeing Austen’s prose manhandled. You can enjoy the film — well, parts of it — as a middling stock production with flurries of gore to break the monotony. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 5, 2016
The story’s lone joke and its grinding literalness grow dull. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlFeb 3, 2016
Call it parody, pastiche, remix, whatever — for some thirty minutes of its running time, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transcends its goof of a premise to become something fresh and full-blooded. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottFeb 3, 2016
To put it in Austen terms: They will not have the pleasure of understanding what Steers is trying to do here. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Feb 3, 2016
There's noise and movement, an all-out war, and the usual happy ending, but no real blood, no real life. And not much fun. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonFeb 2, 2016
The result is an odd, inconsequential but not entirely charmless misfire: an action-horror-comedy-romance with none of the first two and precious little of the third. Read full review
40
EmpireNick de SemlyenFeb 1, 2016
The premise promised Regency class and Romero shocks. The results, though, are only intermittently entertaining, and a better adaptation of Austen than a monster mash. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichJan 28, 2016
Lumbering, lifeless, and—strange thing to say about a cadaver—almost entirely charmless. Almost entirely because both Lily James, as headstrong heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and Sam Riley, as her brooding suitor Mr. Darcy, make for a delightful onscreen pair. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 14, 2016
Steers can compose and capture a shot fine enough, but seems otherwise bored to be here. Each of his scenes collide lazily against the next; transitions are rushed and often ugly, and the director never seems to know what emotions he should be steering his cast toward. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 8, 2016
This new horror/romance mashup provides just enough flavor of Jane Austen’s classic to tease without satisfying. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireFeb 5, 2016
While the 2009 book played this genre mash-up for dry, sly laughs, writer-director Burr Steers’ film amps up the thrills and gore. And that’s a problem—not necessarily as a narrative choice, but from a technical perspective. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 5, 2016
Riley makes a lousy, hoarse-voiced Darcy. James sets off no sparks with him, suggests no heartbreaking longing. If you want to make a point about women liberated by a zombie invasion into independent-minded martial arts warriors, why do it with one of the greatest romance novels of all time? There’s barely a laugh here, and nothing resembling human emotion. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldConnie OgleFeb 4, 2016
James and Riley might make an interesting Elizabeth and Darcy in a traditional Pride and Prejudice, but this version? It’s dead on arrival. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryFeb 4, 2016
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies delivers what its title promises: a little romance and some undead villains, plus a bit of comedy. But this overly busy riff on Austen’s winning formula doesn’t justify all the tinkering. Read full review
20
TheWrapDan CallahanFeb 3, 2016
This movie is so crushing mainly because it was made by obviously smart people who are trying to dumb themselves down, and there’s nothing more excruciating than that. Read full review
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