Macbeth Movie Reviews
5.0
Michael O'Sullivan | Washington Post
This cinematic Macbeth possesses a terrible beauty, evoking fear, sadness, awe and confusion. Presented with the aesthetic of a dark comic book, it’s also a mournful masterpiece, rendering Shakespeare’s spectacle with all the sorrow and majesty that it deserves.Read full review4.8
Inkoo Kang | TheWrap
Fassbender manages to find the psychological throughline that makes Macbeth’s increasing mental deterioration — a development that can feel overly formalistic, not to mention moralistic — wholly convincing.Read full review4.4
Calvin Wilson | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Macbeth takes liberties with the particulars of the Shakespeare play, but is fascinatingly true to its spirit.Read full review3.8
Christy Lemire | RogerEbert.com
If you’re not already somewhat familiar with Shakespeare’s tragedy, this incarnation isn’t about to go out of its way to provide much context or explain why certain characters matter. But in an intriguing contrast, while the scale of the battles and the scenery is enormous and awe-inspiring, some of the more famous moments and lines arrive in understated fashion in intimate spaces.Read full review3.8
Chris Nashawaty | Entertainment Weekly
The film’s raw performances get upstaged by Kurzel’s medieval shock-and-awe palette. The text has been streamlined to make room for more brutal mud-and-blood battle sequences, hauntingly shot by Adam Arkapaw.Read full review3.4
Blake Goble | Consequence of Sound
It’s a fierce, visceral vision with a superb cast, that one suspects was more focused on pumping up Macbeth than reminding people why it’s such a lasting cautionary tale.Read full review1.3
Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle
Kurzel and three screenwriters have figured out a way to make Macbeth boring. Now that they proved it can be done, no one need ever do it again.Read full review