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This arty melodrama is not likely to make teenage America get down with Shakespeare.
| Mar 31, 2008
This transferral of the tragedy of the Moor to a contempo American high school is something that never should have gone further than a class assignment to see if it could be made to work.
Full Review | Mar 25, 2008
Hartnett never allows him to become a hissable villain, keeping Hugo shy of our sympathies, yet his every move is utterly believable.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006
Credit, none the less, to the film-makers' game, unpatronising approach, and to Phifer and Stiles as compelling innocents.
| Jan 26, 2006
An intriguing experiment on paper, but a throwaway onscreen.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003
Perhaps overaware of its solemn literary inheritance, it tiptoes around sex and race, and, in turning Shakespeare's grown-ups into Dawson's Creek teens, jettisons much of the original's grandeur.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2002
In the end, the Shakespearean ideas collapse on film because of the youthful callowness of the characters.
| Sep 28, 2001
On your already groaning Shakespeare for Teens video shelf, stack this one above 10 Things I Hate About You ... and quite a bit below Romeo + Juliet.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2001
It's a doomy dirge of a movie, in which the protagonists, or at least the actors who play them, aren't equipped to handle their outsize passions.
Full Review | Sep 7, 2001
O may not be a classic adaptation, but it works a lot better than it should have.
| Aug 31, 2001
A worthy, well-acted attempt to transform Shakespeare's Othello into a tragic touchstone for modern teens.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 31, 2001
This intelligent, well-paced film rendition forgoes the Elizabethan verse, while capturing the disturbing essence and gripping plot of Shakespeare's classic tragedy.
| Aug 31, 2001
A tale of teen violence takes on qualities of timelessness and universality it would not otherwise possess, while the Othello story leaps out from the screen with a rare immediacy.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2001
If the plot is largely Shakespearean, the most important nuances get lost along the way.
Full Review | Aug 31, 2001
Very little seems to work, or matter, or make much sense.
Full Review | Aug 31, 2001
A worthy experiment, though far from a slamdunk.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2001
In the ways that the plot points have been 'modernized,' events and character motivation often come off as far-fetched.
| Aug 31, 2001
A good film for most of the way, and then a powerful film at the end.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2001
O breaks down after a while, but it's a nice try, and deserves the chance to be seen.
Full Review | Aug 31, 2001