The film’s overemphasis of the 18th-century’s dearth of hygiene feels like smoke and mirrors. It has little new to say about upward mobility. 6/30/2026|Updated: 6/30/2026 R| 1h 53m | Comedy, Drama, Period | 2026 While modern folks are often drawn to the costumes, culture, and sophistication of Regency-era films like “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility,” these stories are impeccably sanitized depictions of those times. The Middle Ages were far worse.