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A classic story adapted by a filmmaker near his creative peak, Chimes at Midnight unites Welles and Shakespeare - and powerfully distills the best of both.
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Welles' vision and imagination is unmatched in film. His use of light in a forbidding, dark castle is a wonder. January 28, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Welles' vision and imagination is unmatched in film. His use of light in a forbidding, dark castle is a wonder.
Bill Goodykoontz
Thanks to an astonishingly crisp restoration, Orson Welles' 1965 Shakespearean masterpiece can now be appreciated by anyone who thought his best days behind the camera ended with Touch of Evil. January 15, 2016 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Thanks to an astonishingly crisp restoration, Orson Welles' 1965 Shakespearean masterpiece can now be appreciated by anyone who thought his best days behind the camera ended with Touch of Evil.
Chris Nashawaty
Quite likely the greatest Shakespearean film ever. January 8, 2016 | Full Review…
Quite likely the greatest Shakespearean film ever.
Peter Rainer
See it on the big screen if you can; for all of its flaws it's a glory. January 7, 2016 | Full Review…
See it on the big screen if you can; for all of its flaws it's a glory.
Joe Morgenstern
The best and most touchingly personal of all Shakespeare adaptations, Chimes At Midnight is pervaded by melancholy and loneliness, even though its characters are almost seen never alone. December 31, 2015 | Rating: A | Full Review…
The best and most touchingly personal of all Shakespeare adaptations, Chimes At Midnight is pervaded by melancholy and loneliness, even though its characters are almost seen never alone.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Sprawling, and hugely ambitious, and containing a glorious Wellesian Falstaff who's as majestic in folly as he is in girth. December 29, 2015 | Full Review…
Sprawling, and hugely ambitious, and containing a glorious Wellesian Falstaff who's as majestic in folly as he is in girth.
Bob Mondello
Chimes at Midnight is a unique achievement that few filmmakers have ever equaled. November 2, 2019 | Full Review…
Chimes at Midnight is a unique achievement that few filmmakers have ever equaled.
Lauren Humphries-Brooks
In this film, [Orson] Welles is bigger than life, literally and figuratively. October 16, 2019 | Full Review…
In this film, [Orson] Welles is bigger than life, literally and figuratively.
Linda and Al Lerner
One can feel Welles' energy and passion, but there is a sense of regret that hangs over Chimes at Midnight that is impossible to ignore, as if Falstaff has become a metaphor for Welles himself. June 4, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
One can feel Welles' energy and passion, but there is a sense of regret that hangs over Chimes at Midnight that is impossible to ignore, as if Falstaff has become a metaphor for Welles himself.
Matthew Lucas
The story, conceived in these terms, is "too easy." Fortunately, the film has several other stories to tell, mainly through its images. March 2, 2019 | Full Review…
The story, conceived in these terms, is "too easy." Fortunately, the film has several other stories to tell, mainly through its images.
Michael Wood
The film is wonderful and exasperating, the work of a genius, the reflections of an egotist, delicious utterances of great language and muddied speeches in other instances. January 17, 2019 | Full Review…
The film is wonderful and exasperating, the work of a genius, the reflections of an egotist, delicious utterances of great language and muddied speeches in other instances.
Tony Mastroianni
one of Welles's greatest late-stage accomplishments-a very nearly magnificent amalgam of plot points, characters, and dialogue from not just one or two of the Bard's history plays, but five of them September 19, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
one of Welles's greatest late-stage accomplishments-a very nearly magnificent amalgam of plot points, characters, and dialogue from not just one or two of the Bard's history plays, but five of them
James Kendrick
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