Tonight's Movie: Sense and Sensibility (2026)

It's a "truth universally acknowledged," to borrow an Austen phrase, that the 1995 version of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is a perfect film.Indeed, in 2014 I included it on my personal list of "10 Favorite Films of the Last 25 Years."One might thus ask why I would bother to go see the brand-new version of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (2026), given the existence of the older film, but I've always enjoyed seeing alternative versions of Austen stories. The oldest production of the several editions of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY in my DVD collection dates from 1981; I have a fond memory of watching the first episode on TV during a college trip to the UK.Austenites need no introduction to the story of the Dashwood family, left in dire financial straits after the father dies and his son from a prior marriage inherits their home.Restrained Elinor (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her wilder sister Marianne (Esme Creed-Miles, daughter of Samantha Morton), their mother (Caitriona Balfe) and younger sister Margaret (Bodhi…