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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: The play's power has been diluted by questionable editing, an overload of blandly stylized violence and the conspicuous suspicion that this whole thing is the predictable result of catering to base commercial instincts. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It lacks size and nerve where it's most needed: in the performances. Read more
Chicago Reader: This is both an exciting thriller and a worthy addition to the canon of Shakespearean cinema. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: The film has the over-stylized sheen of a car commercial peopled by actors decked out like brooding fashion models. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: For kinks, the three witches are naughty rave-teens. And for kicks, the cast, led by Sam Worthington, is consciously chosen for its beauty, each player a brawling rock star in his own mind. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The movie thinks it is daringly up-to-date, but forsooth, 'tis as hip as the ghost of Don Johnson. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: A novelty that the Bard's worshipers will probably find blasphemous and everyone else a puzzlement, although far from a bore. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: This Macbeth is true to the ugly-hearted original. No one is redeemed by gore, or absolved of madness. Nor do lines sound any less sublime when channeled through underlings and overlords. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Unfortunately, 'Romper Stomper' director Geoffrey Wright's take on the play fails to do it justice: both lumpen and flashy, it convinces neither as drama nor as stylistic exercise. Read more
Richard Kuipers, Variety: Oversupplied with particularly nasty bloodletting and underdone as an involving portrait of one of the Bard's mightiest and most psychologically intriguing tragic figures. Read more
Brian Miller, Village Voice: The rush into gunfights and car chases pushes the text in all the wrong directions. Read more