It’s a wonder to watch, even though three-quarters of a century has passed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2024

One of the most fascinating of all screen Macbeths.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 31, 2023

The stark Scottish landscape adds a weird note to a picture that has its moments of high dramatic interest.

| Original Score: 1/3 | Aug 20, 2021

I thought Orson Welles, as the ambitious but tortured Macbeth, was both impressive and moving.

| Jun 29, 2021

Mr. Welles' effort with Macbeth should be honored. The faults are obvious. But his film has great moments which repay a visit.

| Jan 4, 2021

Visually, there are two or three fine rousing climaxes, but on the whole I found this effort disappointing -and, in spots, well-nigh ludicrous.

| Oct 24, 2019

The graphic intensity of Orson Welles' black-and-white 1948 film of Macbeth, then, isn't merely for show, but a carefully considered symbolist staging for screen, meant to complement the Bard's immortal poetry.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 20, 2016

a film that had an unfortunately deleterious effect on Welles's career, but can now be seen and appreciated as a unique, daring take on a familiar text that rendered it new and strange

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 9, 2016

An eccentric, iconoclastic consideration of Shakespeare's tragedy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 22, 2015

A fascinating endeavor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2010

Welles brings his usual first-rate shadows, mist, and deep compositions, but Macbeth is both strangely pat and frequently hammy otherwise.

| Original Score: 42/100 | Apr 6, 2010

Only a few of the Bard's best lines are audible. The rest are lost in strained, dialectic gibbering that is only sound, not prose.

| Jun 18, 2008

Stark, intermittently brilliant.

| Jun 18, 2008

Powerhouse performance from Orson Welles as the troubled Prince.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2008

Wonder-Boy Welles has an imaginative way with a camera.

| Jun 18, 2008

One of the director's most personal creations, it's a courageous experiment with a craggy barbaric splendor all its own.

| Jun 18, 2008

The film has a jagged, noir-ish aspect that makes it a powerhouse.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 14, 2007

There is force in this rough, hasty rendering; the sheer speed of the pacing gives it a quality of crushing delirium.

| Apr 6, 2007

A triumph of cinematic imagination over the limited resources of the parsimonious Republic Pictures Studio, which originally butchered the film and released it with a poor soundtrack.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2006

Adventurous film-making that takes risks, and full of imaginative flourishes.

| Jun 24, 2006