This brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness Here is a Macbeth for young audiences that is full of ...
A power-hungry Scot strides down a corridor, murder on his mind. Is this another Macbeth adaptation I see before me? Undeniably, yes, but Joel Coen’s take on Shakespeare’s age-old tale looks unlike ...
In The Tragedy of Macbeth, director Joel Coen slashes away at Shakespeare's text, distilling every scene to its furious essence. At 105 minutes, this is a shorter Macbeth movie than most. The ...
From Academy Award©-winning filmmaker Joel Coen comes the propulsive, boldly cinematic The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Oscar-winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the devious, ill-fated ...
This post was originally published Dec. 24, 2021. Joel Coen had just put to bed “Hail, Caesar!” – his 17th feature film with brother Ethan Coen – when the idea for “The Tragedy of Macbeth” came to him ...
A first-rate cast and stunning craftsmanship bring surging vitality to Shakespeare’s political thriller about an ambitious couple whose murderous power grab sends them spiraling into madness. By David ...
Historically, adapting “Macbeth” into film has meant rich, detailed period pieces, from Orson Welles’ sweeping epic, to Akira Kurosawa’s visceral “Throne of Blood,” to Justin Kurzel’s luscious Palme d ...