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100A film of audacity and total gut-level appeal.
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91Gorgeous in its gore and, for all its destruction, despair and death, concludes on an optimistic and vibrantly alive note.
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A spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema.
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88A brilliant and absurd film of "Titus Andronicus" that goes over the top, doubles back and goes over the top again.
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88Once you get used to the broad gestures, visual stylings and reach-for-the-sky emotions, you may find yourself luxuriating in this movie's undeniable grandeur.
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88Visually brilliant and thought-provoking.
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88Taymor conjures images that are as indelible as they are wordlessly articulate.
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85A surreal and visually dazzling smorgasbord of pageantry, high camp, tragedy, spectacle, and gore.
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80Taymor's visual and visceral flair makes Titus a grabber.
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80Taymor moves Titus completely out of time and into all time.
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75One of Hollywood's bloodiest and goofiest adaptations.
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75Rescues a rarely performed tragedy and makes a brilliant case that it is the Shakespeare play for our time.
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70Vivid, relevant and of elevating scariness.
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63Julie Taymor's beautifully stylized but nauseatingly violent adaptation of Shakespeare's first play.
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63The director bludgeons us dumb with her genius.
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63A brilliant production of a mediocre play.
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60Much of it is inspired, some of it is downright awful, but it does entertain, even as it threatens to drown its generally fine cast in a flood of blood and sundry body parts.
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60Taymor has done an inspired job of resurrecting one of Shakespeare's unruliest works, just in time for the new century.
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58Remains a sampling of stagy scenes barreling to a gruesome climax, parts greater than the sum of the whole.
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50There's a lot to talk about but so much outrageousness that the end effect is wearying and not a little absurd.
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50Makes the best possible argument for a cautionary drama that contemplates the absolute worst in us.
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50Taymor makes the action clear and easy to follow with her bold physicalization of the story and forceful direction of an astutely chosen cast.
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40A nonstop carnival of murder, rape, and mutilation .
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30Like so many self-conscious directors, Julie Taymor wrecks Shakespeare's already disastrous play with her own horrific vision.
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30An often gorgeous, dizzying assault of ideas and visual flourishes...it's just not very good.
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30More travesty than tragedy.
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30There's something hideously pretentious about the whole thing.
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30Even the most shocking elements of the story are made bland by childish overkill.
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18Invoking unpleasant memories of "Caligula" (only without the sex), Titus does no justice to Shakespeare.
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