A unique and daring movie.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

For those who take elemental pleasure from hearing Shakespeare's beautiful verse delivered this well, your evening will be well spent, and as a piece of drama, Coriolanus still packs a punch.

| Mar 16, 2021

This is a manifesto not for fascism, but for hating human beings in general.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2020

It's creative yet difficult to understand, and definitely not for general audiences, who are likely only to digest the visual violence.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 1, 2020

Centuries after he's been gone Shakespeare remains a remarkably relevant writer.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Fieness has chosen and used the material well.

| Aug 11, 2020

While not a Shakespeare buff, I was drawn into Fiennes' directing debut, and found this modern update to be well worth watching.

| Mar 31, 2020

While setting Shakespeare in modern times is nothing new, Fiennes' bruising, brutal take is both refreshing in its honesty and true to the Bard's spirit. I

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Fiennes' choice to adapt the play as a modern political power struggle is sometimes successful in its union of Shakespeare's prose to contemporary sociopolitical unrest, but also reveals itself to be a stale, pale echo of the bard's original play.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2019

Coriolanus is a determinedly grim but smart, resonant film, faithful to the tone of the original, done with some skill and conviction.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 27, 2019

The performances are uniformly excellent, and Fiennes owns the role of Coriolanus, conceiving of him as a proto-Kurtz with his descent into wilfully renegade activities.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2019

It's a masterful piece of work that would be a real achievement for any director, let alone one making his debut.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 4, 2019

Coriolanus fails to successfully create a believable environment for this verbose narrative to exist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2018

The brilliance of this film lies with the actors. Yes, it's Shakespeare. Yes, you have to be an active listener, but the way these actors make the language so passionate and accessible truly is an accomplishment.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 9, 2018

...brilliant variations on the theme of nausea.

| Nov 6, 2018

Fiennes is fantastic, the music is stellar, the modernization is pure pleasure, and since the whole story is about the meanings of self-abasement you know I am there.

| Sep 7, 2018

Fiennes seems to have opted for a subject a little too close to his heart, and this in turn has clouded his directorial judgement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2018

Coriolanus does not feel like the work of a first-time director. Mr. Fiennes pulls it off triumphantly. He's made a historical curiosity relevant now, when our cities are in uproar and the citizens have taken to the streets.

| Aug 10, 2018

It's genre writing that entertains while tapping into enduring truths.

| Apr 10, 2018

Fiennes, who previously played the title role in a celebrated London theatre, makes a suitably haughty and intense Coriolanus, while Vanessa Redgrave is in terrific form as the general's influential mother.

| Jan 3, 2018