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10/18/08
Macbeth (1971)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:20
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Roman Polanski's Macbeth is unsettling and uneven, but also undeniably compelling.
Runtime: 2 hrs 21 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: William Shakespeare's immortal play about a Scottish warrior (Jon Finch) whose wife's lust for power transforms him into inhuman monster is given it's rawest, most brutal screen treatment in this... [More]
Starring: Jon Finch, Nicholas Selby, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw
Director: Roman Polanski
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10/18/08
Polanski's evident desire to elicit understated, naturalistic performances from his cast also underplays the poetry of the play...
06/24/06
The film's bear-baiting, barnyard pageantry is less convincing than its clammy locations.
05/04/04
Top CriticThe major problem with the film is that the acting is lifeless.
01/01/00
Polanski has increased the film's barbaric realism and fills the screen with blood, mud and brooding atmosphere.
07/02/08
Polanski elicited naturalistic understated performances from his actors which bolstered the play's realism while bringing the poetry down to earth. Some would argue he brought it too far down.
07/03/08
No review available.
11/14/03
Polanski's movie is the quintessential film version of the Scottish play.
11/07/05
A worthy addition to the Bard's cinematic canon.
07/25/01
An over-the-top bu highly effective adaption of the Shakespeare classic with Polanski's disctinctive touches.
03/25/05
The wide-screen visuals swamp the dialogue, and the thematics have been turned inside out -- but that's what movie adaptations ought to do.
07/03/08
Top CriticNo review available.
06/16/05
No review available.
10/20/04
Polanski's worldview of brutish power-plays couldn't be more at home in Shakespeare's medieval times
12/06/09
a bloody, rip-roaring good time
08/27/06
Something of a disappointment.
12/06/05
Made shortly after the Sharon Tate murders, there's a disturbing resonance when Macbeth's gang of wild-eyed assassins butchers noble MacDuff's wife and children.
05/07/02
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