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The words belong to Mr. Shakespeare. All else in this Macbeth is the pleasurably fevered invention of brash Australian director Geoffrey Wright.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

For four centuries William Shakespeare’s plays have been reinvented to fit contemporary sensibilities. But few recent efforts can match the Australian writer and director Geoffrey Wright’s brutal and thrilling new version.Full Review

Matt Zoller Seitz
The New York Times

This is Shakespeare as action film --- furiously paced and unapologetically cinematic.Full Review

Megan Lehmann
The Hollywood Reporter

It's Macbeth by way of "The Covenant," all brooding pretty-boys with emo eyes and hipster hair, standing around in gauzily decorated rich-kid boudoirs in the dead of night, and at times, it's too overblown to take seriously.Full Review

Tasha Robinson
The Onion A.V. Club

Visually, the film is a stunner, dotted with psychedelic colors and many shades of red -- one battle is fought with red laser-gun sights -- some looking realistically like blood. When gangsters open fire, their falls are choreographed like a ballet. The problem comes when the cast opens its mouth and Elizabethan dialogue tumbles out.Full Review

Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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