The Tragedy of Macbeth

Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation of Macbeth, a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning. Stripped back of elaborate stage works and cut to a lean 105 minutes, Coen’s Macbeth is a performance driven piece of film where a cast led by Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand are able to rise to this most auspicious occasion.

As written in The Atlantic, “Coen takes an empty canvas and applies just a few oblique blots of ink; the detail is still there—it just requires a different sort of concentration.”