Titus

Titus (1999)

  • 68% of critics liked it
    (74 reviews)

  • 82% of users liked it
    (19,816 ratings)

One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, Titus Andronicus was staged in New York by award-winning theatrical director Julie Taymor in an acclaimed 1995 production, before her widely praised Broadway version of The Lion King. Taymor revisits that production for her first motion picture, with… More

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R, 2 hr. 42 min.
Directed By
Julie Taymor
Written By
Julie Taymor
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Dec 24, 1999 Wide
On DVD
Aug 15, 2000
Fox Searchlight

Critic Reviews

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    A conditional victory.

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    A consistently absorbing entertainment that never becomes either campy or facetious, given its inescapable exaggerations.

  • , Houston Chronicle

    Hopkins unwisely echoes his performance as Hannibal Lecter, but Lange rises to the occasion with a mesmerizingly in-your-face portrait of mother love gone haywire.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    Along with everything else, the acting styles here clash, though the dissonance serves the drama's bellicose theme.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    Jessica Lange as Tamora, the captured Goth queen, seethes with sexuality and vengeance.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Tsubaki S


    Fantastic crazy fun, Shakespeare was truly ahead of it's time. Hopkins was great, same goes for the rest of the cast, specially Lennix and Cumming.

  • Bruce B


    I was captured once tied and beaten for 3 days, I suffered less pain from that, then this movie. But it just goes to show you I WILL WATCH ANYTHING! Have to admit that the costumes were out of this world, and Anthony Hopkins proves he can play any part with 100 percent success, but I… More

  • Alice S


    OH EM GEE Julie Taymor. You too, Will. I've never read this Shakespeare play and after seeing this textually faithful adaption (from what I hear), I don't understand why the play isn't more popular. It's like <i>Sin City</i> set in the Roman Empire.… More

  • El Hombre I


    I read some of the negative reviews, and I think some just didn't get it, or didn't do their homework. The visuals in this film are fantastic and the acting is outstanding, with mention to Colm Feore as Marcus, Harry J. Lennix as Aaron the Moor. Then there's Jessica… More

  • Jens S


    A very post modern version of one of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedies, with all the well known ingredients: betrayal, murder, intrigues, revenge and revenge for revenge, really mean villains and broken heroes. The set and prop design refuses to be entirely antique or modern and… More

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