Rating: C- -- What can you say about a Romeo and Juliet that lacks heat, romance, eroticism, or lyricism? Mercifully, not much. Full Review

The fact that this "love" is really little more than lust and rebellion is ignored by everyone involved - though at least the lust waits until marriage to be consummated. Full Review

Rating: 2/5 -- On the plus side, the real-life, Veronese back-drops are awesome. And the male cast are as beautiful as the day. Full Review

Rating: 6/10 -- The language is handled beautifully and the acting is solid; but, for lack of Shakespearian prose, this retelling just lacks umph. Full Review

With well over 150 adaptations and imaginations of what is perhaps Shakespeare's most famous, and definitely most adapted, work on screen, director Carlo Carlei's new Romeo & Juliet is, in a word, masterful. Full Review

Juliet should be a girl, but the story's trajectory of self-sacrifice requires her to become a woman. Steinfeld gets the girl part exactly right, but she botches the transformation. Full Review

There isn't an interesting new point of view here (unless it's that violence is bad and sometimes after a tragedy, you just have to mend fences and move on -- but that's hardly a new idea, and the story isn't meant to be beat-you-over-the-head didactic). Full Review