Believing herself an expert in the
field of match-making, Emma
takes mousy teenager Harriet (a
charming Mia Goth) under her
wing, attempting to transform
her into Emma’s idea of a per-
fect Georgian lady and find the
young lass a male suitor.
Emma’s snooty and snobbish
ways are frowned upon by her
brother-in-law, George Knight-
ley (Johnny Flynn), who has just
moved into the sprawling man-
sion she shares with her doting
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and doddery father (Bill Nighy).
George and Emma are at odds
with one another from the start,
but could their animosity be
masking their true feelings? You
don’t need to be a scholar in Re-
gency literature to know the an-
swer to that one.
As written by Austen, the char-
acter of Emma is deeply unlike-
able, a borderline sociopath, and
that’s the approach De Wilde,
Taylor-Joy and screenwriter
Eleanor Catton have steadfastly
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