Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 1991

Critics score:
64 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: As happens at the opera, one usually laughs (if one laughs at all) not because something is funny, but because one has successfully recognized that it is supposed to be funny. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: As a movie, this material, freely adapted by Stoppard, is boring and endless. It lies flat on the screen, hardly stirring. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Both Oldman and Roth turn in flat and uninspiring performances. Read more

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Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Staged as they are here, the jokes and the fourth-wall gamesmanship don't seem as funny as they did on the page. Read more