Its sober tone often strips away spectacle to offer a behind-closed-doors historical drama about betrayal, revenge and political power, which finds its strongest point in the performances and some memorable Shakespearean dialogue. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 1, 2024

Joseph L Mankiewicz’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play is something of a triumph, with Marlon Brando disproving the doubters who thought this was a “stunt casting”...

| Oct 26, 2023

This is a fairly stolid adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous play but when James Mason starts talking in that mellifluous voice of his it is hard to look away...

| Feb 9, 2023

Shakespeare's drama itself suffers from a long anticlimax, but most of its celebrated merits are soundly accounted for in this tasteful, intelligent film.

| Dec 3, 2019

A wordy historical blockbuster with a dramatic flourish.

| May 20, 2019

Over Caesar's corpse Brando begins to mix grief, rage, cunning, and ferocity; his reading of the funeral oration is so quakingly angry you understand why it would rouse the rabble.

| Jan 18, 2016

Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz manages to showcase the Bard's dialogue in a film that also has the visual appeal of Oscar-winning art direction.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Dec 26, 2014

Brando became a legend in gritty Elia Kazan productions, but it was his naturalistic approach in nonrealistic Mankiewicz fare like this and 1955's Guys and Dolls that helped transform all acting.

| Nov 7, 2014

Brando actually addresses the crowd he is speaking to, his searing eyes picking out stragglers and cutting them down

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 7, 2009

The best Shakespeare that Hollywood has yet produced.

| Jul 9, 2008

A tense, melodramatic story, clearly presented, and excellently acted by one of the finest casts assembled for a film.

| Jul 9, 2008

Unimaginative but intelligent.

| Jul 9, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2007

A remarkably successful stab at Shakespeare.

| Jun 24, 2006

Surprisingly, Mankiewicz's MGM version is intelligent, smooth, engaging, polished, and well acted by all involved, including Brando proving his detractors that he can handle any part, including Mark Antony.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 14, 2005

Brando, Gielgud and Mason are slightly superb.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2005

A terrific Hollywood version of a Shakespeare play.

| Original Score: A | Aug 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2004

Lavish, starstruck and for the most part, splendid.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 30, 2003

The whole piece moves at a pace, never sacrificing battle scenes or diversions to make it cinema.

| May 24, 2003