King Lear (2018)
Movie Info
Cast
as Lear
as Goneril
as Regan
as Earl of Gloucester
as Cordelia
as Earl of Kent
as Edgar
as Edmund
as Duke of Cornwall
as Duke of Albany
as Fool
as Oswald
Critic Reviews for King Lear
All Critics (7) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (2)
Goneril shouldn't be played by anyone whose chief trait is Mary Poppins cosiness.
It was like turning on the TV in a foreign hotel room...So let's just say I failed it, and not the other way around.
Despite its strength-in-depth cast it ends up as less than the sum of its parts.
Now 80 himself, the right age, Hopkins is at home in Lear's skin. Shouty, angry, cruel one moment; vulnerable, tender, loving the next - or at the same time. A mesmerising performance.
Flawed parenting, ingrate children and family estrangement will never not be relevant, and the modern-day dress gave it the feel of a production at ease with itself.
What is most fresh but coherent is [director Richard] Eyre's interpretation of the three sisters as women absolutely at the end of their tether.
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