| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A film of audacity and total gut-level appeal.
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| 91 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Gorgeous in its gore and, for all its destruction, despair and death, concludes on an optimistic and vibrantly alive note.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
Robert Faires
A spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
Once 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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| 88 |
Baltimore Sun
Taymor conjures images that are as indelible as they are wordlessly articulate.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A brilliant and absurd film of "Titus Andronicus" that goes over the top, doubles back and goes over the top again.
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| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Visually brilliant and thought-provoking.
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| 85 |
TNT RoughCut
Don Kaye
A surreal and visually dazzling smorgasbord of pageantry, high camp, tragedy, spectacle, and gore.
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| 80 |
Rolling Stone
Taymor's visual and visceral flair makes Titus a grabber.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
Taymor moves Titus completely out of time and into all time.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
One of Hollywood's bloodiest and goofiest adaptations.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Rescues a rarely performed tragedy and makes a brilliant case that it is the Shakespeare play for our time.
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| 70 |
Time
Vivid, relevant and of elevating scariness.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
The director bludgeons us dumb with her genius.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Julie Taymor's beautifully stylized but nauseatingly violent adaptation of Shakespeare's first play.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
A brilliant production of a mediocre play.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Much 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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| 60 |
LA Weekly
Taymor has done an inspired job of resurrecting one of Shakespeare's unruliest works, just in time for the new century.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Remains a sampling of stagy scenes barreling to a gruesome climax, parts greater than the sum of the whole.
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| 50 |
USA Today
There'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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| 50 |
Variety
Taymor 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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| 50 |
The New York Times
Makes the best possible argument for a cautionary drama that contemplates the absolute worst in us.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
A nonstop carnival of murder, rape, and mutilation .
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| 30 |
Film.com
An often gorgeous, dizzying assault of ideas and visual flourishes...it's just not very good.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
More travesty than tragedy.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
There's something hideously pretentious about the whole thing.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Even the most shocking elements of the story are made bland by childish overkill.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
Like so many self-conscious directors, Julie Taymor wrecks Shakespeare's already disastrous play with her own horrific vision.
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| 18 |
Mr. Showbiz
Invoking unpleasant memories of "Caligula" (only without the sex), Titus does no justice to Shakespeare.
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