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
Mixed:
20
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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
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