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Horridly magnificent - but real problems occur when anyone opens their mouth: Macbeth reviewed

It might interest GCSE first-timers but as psychodrama the film’s a bit rock vid - all flames, flashbacks and slo-mos. And is that Bananarama I see before me?

3 October 2015

9:00 AM

3 October 2015

9:00 AM

Macbeth

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Who goes to big-screen Shakespeare? Not theatre-goers much, and with reason. Apart from the odd corker by Kurosawa, arguably Olivier and Orson Welles — and let’s bung in Zeffirelli for those with a sweeter tooth — the Bard is a better scriptwriter when the words are dumped and the plots he nicked from elsewhere are updated.

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