...a briskly-paced yet mostly uninvolving adaptation...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 19, 2022

The movie may be uneven, but Arrow's release is gorgeous.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 9, 2022

It’s too bad that the filmmakers couldn’t include women in their reverence with the sort of understanding that Mary Shelley showed toward men.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 6, 2022

Flamboyant, melodramatic, full of sound and fury and fire and lightning and blood and amniotic fluid, Kenneth Branagh’s film is a feverishly ambitious work

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2022

Kenneth Branagh's caffeinated take on the tale survives crucial miscasting in a significant role.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2022

A film as misshapen and compelling as its central creature, Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is a beautiful monstrosity in 4K.

| Apr 7, 2022

An entertaining literary adaptation.

| Mar 23, 2022

De Niro's casting as the creature is distracting. Although he works hard to suggest a misunderstood loner, we can never forget that it's De Niro under all that latex.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 25, 2022

Branagh's version is too respectful and ultimately, well, lifeless.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 27, 2019

They're calling it "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," but, with apologies to the former rock group, "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" is more like it.

| Nov 27, 2019

Sumptuous to look at, with some decent performances...

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

In attempting to keep faith with the original novel, Branagh concentrates too much on design and content, and loses the heart and soul of the story in the process.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Branagh is very obsessed with chewing the scenery. So much so that he even manages to outdo Robert DeNiro.

| Nov 1, 2014

Branagh's ambitious take succeeds as a cautionary tale about true monstrosity: hubris and man's inhumanity to man. But one man's operatic style is another man's unintentionally comical excess, and...Frankenstein certainly tempts fate... [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2009

Clearly, one person's authentic homage is another person's overwrought teeth-gnashing fest, as Branagh's film never hesitates to slop on the melodramatic mustard.

Full Review | Original Score: 64/100 | Oct 14, 2009

I'm inclined to give it an 8 now. The more you watch, the more you appreciate how Branagh was able to faithfully retell Shelley's novel while still managing to make it fresh and make it relevant.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 11, 2009

Uma das mais fiis e complexas adaptaes da histria original, respeitando seus temas principais mesmo que desviando-se, aqui e ali, de pontos especficos da trama.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Kenneth Branagh has indeed created a monster, but not the kind he originally envisioned.

| Jun 20, 2008

Watching the movie work itself into an operatic frenzy, one remains curiously detached: the grand gestures are there, but where's the music?

| Mar 31, 2008

Different look at the old Frankenstein story, directed by Branagh.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2008