Twelfth Night Reviews
A handsome, agreeably performed rendition that fails to ignite much laughter or any real emotion.
Full Review | Jul 6, 2008
The direction is assured, and the cast is masterly.
| Feb 9, 2006
A comic meditation on desire, disguise and inherent bisexuality.
Full Review | May 20, 2003
An entertaining movie. No more, no less.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002
Only fitfully do the actors actually seem to become the characters they are playing.
| Feb 14, 2001
An innovative and imaginatively rendered version of Shakespeare's funniest play.
| Jan 1, 2000
The autumn chill suffusing this film is right in line with the play's constant song of death and loss.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Stage director Trevor Nunn hasn't exploited it in his film of the chaotic Bard farce, which delivers only fitfully on goodwill the play automatically beckons.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Bonham Carter, who has grown wonderfully as an actress, walks the thin line between love and comedy...
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000
British director Nunn doesn't always take advantage of the play's comic possibilities. But he creates absorbing, original moments -- in the unlikeliest of places.
| Jan 1, 2000