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 ...

Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which was first published in 1623. The story follows a Scottish general named Macbeth (Washington), who discovers a trio of witches ...

Historian and politician John Dalberg Acton is quoted saying, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Is it possible he was reading William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth ...

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson, Corey Hawkins, Harry Melling, ...

Crime never pays across the Coen brothers’ oeuvre, whether they’re out for laughs (“Fargo”) or in a mood (“No Country For Old Men”). So it makes bubbling cauldrons of sense that a debut Shakespeare ...

In his first solo outing, Joel Coen sets "Macbeth" in a ravishing old-movie world that envelops the audience, as Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand take a desperate stab at power. So it’s no ...

Director William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth sounds as though it’s an adaptation from another William–Shakespeare, that is. Rather, it’s based on an 1865 Russian novella by Nikolai Leskov, Lady Macbeth of ...

Orson Welles’ horror-tinged, loose adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies returns to Blu-ray in Macbeth: Special Edition (Kino Lorber, not rated, 119 minutes, 1:33:1 aspect ratio, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Eighty-five years have passed since Orson Welles established his presence as an ...

Lady Macbeth (2016) Film Review from the 23rd Annual Los Angeles Film Festival, a movie directed by William Oldroyd, starring Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi ...