Gyllenhaal and Downey's performances are arguably a little opaque, and Downey plays the dialogue in his trademark swallowed gabble, which is now verging on self-parody.
Granted, the casting of Knightley and MacFadyen as Mr Darcy is arguably a little more callow than Firth and Ehle, and Knightley is better looking than Lizzy should strictly be, the original's looks being what fashion magazine editors call merely "editorial".
There is something a little baroque and stylised about his approach - it is arguably a little actorly and unlike the behaviour of any real villain.
Whereas that album was made with dance producers like William Orbit, Martin Solveig and the Benassi Brothers, the new one has a cast of producers, including Avicii, Diplo, Blood Diamonds and DJ Dahi, whose sound is arguably a little more assertive.
Four Lions' Adeel Akhtar is fabulously paranoid as Wilson Wilson, a conspiracy nut with a bomb shelter in his back garden, and Misfits star Nathan Stewart-Jarrett is Ian, arguably a little too dashingly handsome to play an IT geek who still lives with his mum.
The president of the Jane Austen Society of North America noted in an otherwise positive review that the casting of the 2005 leads was "arguably a little more callow than Firth and Ehle" and that "Knightley is better looking than Lizzy should strictly be".
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, while praising Knightley for an outstanding performance "which lifts the whole movie", considered the casting of the leads "arguably a little more callow than Firth and Ehle".
Cristina Gallardo-Domas, by contrast, was all presence and spark in the role of Boccanegra's daughter (a role arguably a little heavy for her voice).
The dictatorship of the majority is arguably a little less odious than the dictatorship of the minority.
