Two hours and forty-four minutes of very fattening eye candy.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 2, 2022

Taymor understands how to direct an epic opera, and the large scale sensuality she embeds into the film tempers the play's worst impulses.

| Jan 20, 2022

...audaciously steps outside of the tradition when it comes to film adaptations of the bard's works, but it also does so much more: notably, find distinct meaning in a play where all notions of importance lacked a central point.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A conditional victory.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2008

This may just be the most striking and unsettling translation of Shakespeare ever committed to film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 26, 2008

It's hard to see it matching the success of other recent adaptations of the Bard.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

At once mesmerizing and jarring to the point that the audience can never get comfortable in the film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

A consistently absorbing entertainment that never becomes either campy or facetious, given its inescapable exaggerations.

| Apr 27, 2007

A striking addition to the Shakespeare filmography.

| Feb 9, 2006

It's amazing how enjoyable Shakespeare can be when Kenneth Branagh isn't involved.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Hopkins unwisely echoes his performance as Hannibal Lecter, but Lange rises to the occasion with a mesmerizingly in-your-face portrait of mother love gone haywire.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 21, 2005

A true pleasure and a surprise.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 9, 2005

Tecnicamente brilhante, esta inventiva adaptao traz timas atuaes - com exceo de Cumming, que parece estar ensaiando para um revival de Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2004

The real star of the show is Lange.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2003

Along with everything else, the acting styles here clash, though the dissonance serves the drama's bellicose theme.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Eager to allow Shakespeare's words to shine through as clearly as possible, Taymor shoots the dialogue scenes fairly straight, with a minimum of background action.

| Dec 2, 2002

Adds a wicked grin to the proceedings.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2002

Taymor manages to play with images and music as effectively as Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet or McKellan's Richard III, yet weaves a tale so powerful and stark that it leave you breathless.

| May 31, 2002

Relentless, brutal and equally witty...

| Original Score: A- | Apr 3, 2002