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- Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: In a time where movies feel increasingly manufactured off an assembly line, here is an entry meticulously fashioned by artists who know exactly what they’re doing.
- [New] | Cecilia Barroso @ Cenas de Cinema [Portuguese]
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Sometimes a film just aggressively leaves one cold…while Bruno Delbonnel’s silvery, misty, close-up cinematography is striking, all the German Expressionism on display renders this one “Lady Macbeth in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.”
- Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
- Excerpt: The way it moves, the way it looks, and the way it feels is otherworldly. Like you’re dropped into the Twilight Zone in the 17th Century.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Brush up your Shakespeare! This adaptation makes no concessions for those not intimately familiar with the text.
- Mark Leeper @ Mark leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH is the first solo directorial effort by Joel Coen. Unfortunately, I found the production not up to other Shakespeare films.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: It’s as though [Coen] planned everything out for Broadway to ensure the actors remained grounded before expanding his visual scope to cinematic heights.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Finding ways to creatively bring out the most from such a stark setup is clearly the challenge that’s been accepted and then turned on its head.
- Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: After nearly four decades of the Coen brothers making movies together, The Tragedy of Macbeth is the first solo film by Joel Cohen. His stripped down, almost ascetic, version of the Shakespeare work is, simply put, a masterpiece.
