If you are familiar with "Hamlet" and can appreciate subtle jokes about the possibility that your entire life is pointless, this movie is a hoot.

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

Fans of the original stage play will most likely enjoy Stoppard's film version, but this treatment feels far less dynamic or lively.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 13, 2020

...the film is a failure.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 28, 2018

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

Unfortunately, Stoppard the director does not match the invigorating brilliance of Stoppard the writer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2008

A disastrous adaptation of an excellent play.

| Jul 3, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2008

...On stage, the sprightly teleological riffs and bebop dialogue delight as ends in themselves. Here they're leaden and compromised. What happened?

| Apr 5, 2006

Both Oldman and Roth turn in flat and uninspiring performances.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2005

Really head-twisting adaptation of the play with fine work from Oldman and Roth.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 22, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 24, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2003

Probably the best stage to screen adaptation I've ever seen. Essential.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 15, 2003

Tom Stoppard's 1967 morality play has been translated into a high-spirited and well-acted film.

| Jul 10, 2003

As happens at the opera, one usually laughs (if one laughs at all) not because something is funny, but because one has successfully recognized that it is supposed to be funny.

| May 20, 2003