Critic Reviews
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Heather Boerner, Common Sense Media
Fun retelling, but longer than teens will like it.
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Arthur Ryel-Lindsey, Slant Magazine
Branagh's film suffers when that boldness does not go far enough, creating an adaptation that trades depth and cultural exploration for a few quick fireworks; it is not so much Kurosawa's Macbeth as Memoirs of a Geisha.
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Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
Energetic and entertaining, but it's like a long episode of an over-talky, out-of-control soap opera.
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Derek Malcolm, This is London
It's not an unsuccessful adaptation. But it rarely catches fire as one of Shakespeare's most popular plays should.
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Neil Smith, thelondonpaper
Kenneth Branagh directs this pedestrian spin on the Shakespearean comedy that proves stubbornly resistant to his boisterous brand of all-star panto.
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Cast
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Brian Blessedas Duke Frederick -
Bryce Dallas Howardas Ganymede -
Romola Garaias Celia
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Adrian Lesteras Oliver de Boys -
Alfred Molinaas Touchstone -
Kevin Klineas Jaques
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