| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Sumptuous version, both earthy and enchanted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2010

I remain skeptical about the ability of even the best American actors to read Shakespeare's lines without giving the impression that they are enduring very painful cultural root canal work.

| Apr 27, 2007

Injecting the film with fun and pathos, Kline makes a superb Bottom; it's his play and he acts it to the hilt.

| Feb 9, 2006

If there is sacrilege afoot, I'm not enough of a scholar to spot it.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

The film is never a chore to watch, but others have done better by the Bard.

| Nov 6, 2002

Unfortunately, despite the wonderful locations, sets, costumes, and strong acting, this adaptation has a strange lack of magic or chemistry between players.

| Jun 23, 2002

Hoffman charts a middle course, and travels it quite well -- his version is neither as elaborately baroque as Max Reinhardt's 1935 film treatment nor as starkly sexual as Peter Brooks's celebrated 1970 staging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Sporting a shamelessly commercial all-star cast and textually shorn to make a comfortable, diverting two-hour flick, it's the lack of intellectual pretensions that finally makes this version so endearing.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2002

It's captivatingly modest.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Sparkling with moonbeams and wit!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Has a seductive, genuinely dreamlike feel that invites total surrender to its spell.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Intermittently enjoyable!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A gorgeous sliver of grown-up ambrosia.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A playful, sexy piece of work -- just what the Bard might have conjured up for a movie adaptation of his beloved spring-fever comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Gentle and lighthearted!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

After watching William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, I'm left with more admiration than fairy dust.

| Jan 1, 2000

Needs a flight of fancy to be truly memorable!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Dangles uncertainly between mannerly devotion to Big Will and susceptibility to a recent cinematic pandemic, the update.

| Jan 1, 2000