Transportive to the era, Lady Macbeth is a thoughtful drama, with an astounding performance from Florence Pugh.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Florence Pugh will literally annihilate audiences with every fiber of her being giving us a period piece version of The Bad Seed meets Fatal Attraction.

| Jul 24, 2024

Lady Macbeth seems to begin as one thing — a gloomy period tale of oppression and feminist rebellion — but, on the strength of Pugh’s performance, pivots into an even bleaker subversion of that initial impression.

| Sep 23, 2023

This film will not make you happy, but you will feel a lot of emotions. With this performance, then-20-year-old Pugh let the world know up front she was going to be running things.

| Sep 10, 2021

Ackie plays the constant terror of being volleyed back and forth between sadistic white noblemen and women with terrifying calm. In truth, this is really her movie.

| Mar 19, 2021

A powerful, at times brutal, portrayal of a woman driven to extremes in search of autonomy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2021

The oppressed become conquerors and vice versa in a story that treats vengeance like an everyday event.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2021

At one hour and 30 minutes, every aspect of the film feels spare and graceful.

| Feb 27, 2021

With a crackling, loaded script by Birch, Lady Macbeth is an exhilarating, radical and timely examination of being a woman in a man's world.

| Jul 17, 2020

Director Oldroyd has done a fine job distilling the essence of Leskov's novella. His Lady Macbeth is an intense, conscientious, well-constructed piece.

| Jul 8, 2020

In the third act, the film throws a hook to your stomach, and then drags you by the mud without mercy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 4, 2020

Lady Macbeth is understated and devastating in a single breath, and I'm certain we'll be seeing a great deal more of Florence Pugh in the years to come.

| May 12, 2020

Combined with Alice Birch's blunt and effective screenplay, the result is a nerve-wracking, emotionless drama that delivers across the board.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2019

[A] visceral, yet austere, telling of as screenwriter Alice Birch delves into the moral ambiguity of 1865, all to exquisite result

| Oct 30, 2019

I expected a dark period drama - but the film went way past that. This is no Jane Austen piece. Get ready for a truly psychological thriller.

| Sep 11, 2019

The portrait it makes of men with power in that 19th century of rural England is authentic patriarchal cancer. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 2, 2019

Lady Macbeth feels like gussied-up exploitation incapable of wringing any actual substance out of its lurid trappings.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2019

A beautifully produced and atmospheric work through which Oldroyd shows great promise. But thematically it's a bit of a mess.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Lady Macbeth is a wonderfully chilling and unexpected twist on the costume drama, possibly launching a groundbreaking new direction for the genre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

What starts off as a tale of feminism in hoop skirts quickly devolves into something far sinister.

| Apr 16, 2019