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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Reviews for Macbeth
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Polanski's worldview of brutish power-plays couldn't be more at home in Shakespeare's medieval times Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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The wide-screen visuals swamp the dialogue, and the thematics have been turned inside out -- but that's what movie adaptations ought to do. Full Review |
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Polanski has increased the film's barbaric realism and fills the screen with blood, mud and brooding atmosphere. Full Review |
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a bloody, rip-roaring good time Full Review |
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Polanski's evident desire to elicit understated, naturalistic performances from his cast also underplays the poetry of the play... Full Review |
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Released just two years after Polanski's then pregnant wife was brutally murdered by members of the Manson family, and morbidly preoccupied with violence and cruelty Full Review |
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3/4 |
Something of a disappointment. Full Review |
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Polanski's movie is the quintessential film version of the Scottish play.
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5/5 |
An over-the-top bu highly effective adaption of the Shakespeare classic with Polanski's disctinctive touches.
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With its apparent fixation on murder and cruelty, it is difficult to overlook a number of the unsettling autobiographical details in the film. Full Review |
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4/4 |
This is an original film by an original film artist, and not an 'interpretation.' Full Review |
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The film's bear-baiting, barnyard pageantry is less convincing than its clammy locations. Full Review |
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Forces Shakespeare into the modern terrain of sickly spiralling sensibilities, with blood, lust, and madness at the forefront. Full Review |
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