Coriolanus Reviews

Movie Reviews

• yet with its forever-war landscape, it couldn't be more

  Review rate : B by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• together they bring this world alive, closing the centuries-long distance between the writing of the play and this interpretation

  Review rate : B by Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]

• this film has a ripped-from-TV antic buzz of foreign wars, economic troubles and pandering politics

  by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail ]

• they make every line seem personally conceived, surprising yet inevitable

  by Eric Hynes [Village Voice ]

• thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand

  by Dana Stevens [Slate ]

• the fact that in this film they're often doing so on a cable news show or while brandishing a Kalashnikov is just so much window-dressing

  Review rate : C+ by Chris Barsanti [Filmcritic.com ]

• the dangerous dynamics of fickle crowds and scenes of lacerating intimacy

  Review rate : B by Kathleen Murphy [MSN Movies ]

• shot with an aggressive ugliness - the lighting is flat and lackluster

  by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]

• not only makes a brilliant, fearsome Coriolanus - he also displays an exciting talent for filmmaking

  Review rate : A- by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• neat trick

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• make a vitriolic pair - heavyweight screen acting at its best

  by Ray Bennett [Hollywood Reporter ]

• film's first half is rather challenging to navigate

  by Peter Debruge [Variety ]

• deserves to be seen, however, especially among those who enjoy Shakespeare without considering themselves purists

  Review rate : C by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• an acerbic, resonant, troubling film, one of the year's very best

  by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com ]
• Review rate : B Reviewed by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]
• Review rate : D+ Reviewed by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

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