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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Feb 2012

Visually and dramatically it works well - it's Shakespeare by way of Black Hawk Down - but as an allegory of modern-day geopolitics it doesn't…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Feb 2012

One of the pleasures of Fiennes' film is that the screenplay by John Logan (Hugo, Gladiator) makes room for as much of Shakespeare's language…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Jan 2012

Think The Hurt Locker, which shares a cinematographer in Barry Ackroyd with no damage to the Bard's bruising poetry. Neat trick…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 19 Jan 2012

It finds a way to make the play's rich, dense literary language (just before the climactic battle, one character accuses another of breaking…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Jan 2012

Martius comes to a bad end, while Mr. Fiennes achieves a great beginning…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 19 Jan 2012

It's a film of vigorous performances and provocative modern resonances, though it sometimes struggles to grapple with a grim, politically ambiguous,…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Jan 2012

As played by Ralph Fiennes in his own cinematic adaptation of the play, Coriolanus' military genius makes him a figure of awe, but it's his…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for Empire (3,446) on 16 Jan 2012

Exciting, ironic, with assured direction, accomplished performances and the tension of topical themes, this is Shakespeare as relevant as you like it…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 16 Jan 2012

The greatest performance, though, is Vanessa Redgrave's as Martius's blood-lusting mother, Volumnia…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 12 Jan 2012

Coriolanus deserves to be seen, however, especially among those who enjoy Shakespeare without considering themselves purists…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Dec 2011

With its warring factions, citizen uprisings, guerrilla insurgencies, political intrigue, bloody warfare, family tensions, and homoerotic subtext,…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 02 Dec 2011

Moreover, in attempting to update the play to a buzzing CNN world, Ralph Fiennes proves that as a director, he makes a fine actor…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 01 Dec 2011

Fiennes' crackerjack Coriolanus stays true to the clever, almost mean-spirited twists and turns of the story, and preserves the authentic flavor…

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By Ray Bennett (125) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Dec 2011

Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in Coriolanus as William Shakespeare's Rambo in a production that delivers heavyweight screen acting at its best…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Dec 2011

If you give yourself over to that clash of style and sensibility, something magical happens as the power, the prescience and the precision…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 01 Dec 2011

Then too there's the sheer pleasure of hearing these words spoken by an actor like Mr…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 01 Dec 2011

Here, in his best performance since Spider, Fiennes plays the snarling, entitled general Caius Martius Coriolanus, whose bloody brow and bald…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 01 Dec 2011

Fiennes works hard to keep the rhythm going: He stages hand-to-hand combat sequences and knife fights as if he were making a smart action movie,…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 01 Dec 2011

Vanessa Redgrave nimbly plays Coriolanus' mother, Volumnia, a blend of formidable stage mother and a puppeteering power behind the throne…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 29 Nov 2011

In lesser hands, this could have easily been some seriously detestable John Wayne jingoism…

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