Hamlet

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times - 05/26/200

"...Voluptuous and rewarding...[a] vital and sharply intelligent film..."

Variety - 1/31-2/6/2000

"...Conceptually vivid..."

Rolling Stone - 6/08/2000

"...A visual knockout....Thou wilt be dazzled..."

Film Comment - 03/01/2000

"...Ingeniously and divertingly updating Shakespeare to corporate New York....HAMLET benefits from playfully iconographic casting..."

Entertainment Weekly - 06/16/2000

"...Jangling and incisive..." -- Rating: A

Sight and Sound - 01/01/2001

"...An insistently tricky piece of conceptual art....The impromptu tone is often charming..."

Box Office - 04/01/2000

"...Almereyda has infused HAMLET with such a contemporary sensibility that today's audiences can't help but relate..." -- 4 out of 5 stars

Los Angeles Times - 05/12/2000

"...Almereyda imagines HAMLET taking place in present-day Manhattan with such vigor, insight and originality that the power and immediacy of his film makes Shakespeare accessible in an exciting and provocative manner..."

Chicago Sun-Times - 05/19/2000

"...Bill Murray is a good choice as Polonius....It demonstrates how Shakespeare, who in a way invented modern English, has so dominated it ever since that his meanings are always broadly clear to us, even despite unfamiliar usages..."