
Overview
Genre :
Romance, DramaRelease Date :
December 10, 2010MPAA Rating :
PG-13Director :
Julie TaymorStarring :
Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Ben Wishaw, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, David Strathairn, Reeve Carney
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics
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Review rate : B-
“..theatrically ambitious, musically busy, and in the end cinematically inert..”
“..theatrically ambitious, musically busy, and in the end cinematically inert..”
by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly]

“..the result is cacophonous..”
by John P. McCarthy [Boxoffice Magazine]
“..so kitschy, yet curiously drab and banal..”
by Leslie Felperin [Variety]

“..reimagining or gender-bending the works of William Shakespeare..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]

“..lacks some of the magical qualities that lifts its story into the realms of classic fantasy..”
by Derek Malcolm [This Is London]
“..lacks a pulse..”
by Ernest Hardy [Village Voice]

“..it does fundamentally fail Shakespeare's play..”
by Aaron Cutler [Slant Magazine]
“..feeling and fantasy packed into the prose and poetry of the script..”
by A.O. Scott [NY Times]
Review rate : B-
“..doesn't offer much in the way of forward momentum..”
“..doesn't offer much in the way of forward momentum..”
by Keith Phipps [A.V. Club]
“..a great and awful film..”
by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle]





