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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: Mr. Branagh's superb performance...guarantees this film an immediacy that any audience will understand. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Parker has shown how involving and moving Shakespeare can still be on the screen. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For sheer impact, this Othello can stand side-by-side with the versions brought to the screen by Orson Welles (as restored in 1992) and Lawrence Olivier. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: ... Will not give its viewers much of an idea of the Shakespeare play, and may inadvertently give them other ideas, about interracial love, that were not much on Shakespeare's mind. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The real question is, could director Oliver Parker have done worse? Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Parker, whose screenplay strips down the original play, merely produces a lackluster essence. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Passion, like outpourings of iambic pentameter, isn't part of this picture's equation. Read more