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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 10 Oct 2017

It's a tough old watch with performances that are good rather than great and with what, at first, appears to be fashionable ethnically blind…

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By Toby Woollaston (47) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 27 Sep 2017

Director William Oldroyd has breathed some fresh air to the staid old period drama, comfortably ratcheting mood and tension without any musical score…

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By James Croot (201) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 27 Sep 2017

[Florence Pugh] delivers one of the truly mesmerising and memorable performances of the year as the compelling, conniving and at times chilling…

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By Kristian M. Lin (336) for Fort Worth Weekly (325) on 21 Sep 2017

Lady Macbeth, under its Victorian petticoats, cuts savagely close to the bone…

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By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

This is not a movie to take to your heart, but as a psychological character study, it's both grueling and profound…

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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 04 Sep 2017

To say that the film left me cold isn't a criticism, as that's clearly the intent…

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By Tara Thorne (211) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 29 Aug 2017

[William] Oldroyd asks a lot of the relatively inexperienced [Florence] Pugh, and she nails it, a box of steely reserve constantly threatened…

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By Filipe Freitas (61) for Film Threat (5,156) on 29 Aug 2017

Unusual, uncomfortable, austere, and tragic, this drama film will likely give you the bitterest taste you've had this year in the movie theaters…

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By Diane Carson (151) for KDHX (St. Louis) (284) on 28 Aug 2017

Some have called this a nice change from the suffering female victim, but the other side of the coin shows a sociopath at work, not a great…

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By Alexander Miller (6) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 28 Aug 2017

Lady Macbeth pokes at the romanticized perspective of Victorian-set films, becoming more akin to a macabre neo-noir…

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By Barry Paris (96) for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (258) on 24 Aug 2017

The cinematography rivets our attention with every frame, not just in the shocking murder scenes but also in the details…

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By Megan Burbank (30) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 21 Aug 2017

Lady Macbeth is an odd jumble of Gothic romance conventions, a storyline transplanted from a bleak Russian novella, and an attempt to address…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 20 Aug 2017

Lady Macbeth's positive attributes are ultimately cancelled out by a middle that just doesn't, for the most part, work at all…

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By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 20 Aug 2017

This startling debut feature by British director William Oldroyd is a beautiful examination of passion, cruelty, manipulation, and downright…

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By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Aug 2017

The result is cold and unconvincing, by turns dull and repellent…

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By Victoria Alexander (762) for FilmsInReview.com (462) on 04 Aug 2017

Another delicious repressed femme fatale…

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By Dan Webster (147) for Spokesman-Review (Washington) (147) on 03 Aug 2017

What's ironic is that this darkest of tales is told in a uniquely beautiful manner…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for Splice Today (140) on 03 Aug 2017

Like Downton Abbey, except more violent and totally deranged, featuring a star-making performance by Florence Pugh…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 03 Aug 2017

It's certainly mean, mean, mean, as little kids might say, but its brief running time and that wicked performance from Florence Pugh make it…

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By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 03 Aug 2017

Dark, difficult and morally slippy, Lady Macbeth looks a little like Downton Abbey but plays more like Double Indemnity…

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