It's weird to see Dench and McKellen so young, but they're both fabulously creepy in this filming of a stage production. The pacing drags in places, but the performances are great.

Breezy fun, it's by far one of the most accessible Shakespeare movies ever, and worth watching just for the numerous cameos.

Yikes. Polanski's version is hedonistic, racy, bloody, and intense. What else to expect from a Playboy-financed film? It's intriguing and visceral, a unique spin on Macbeth.

It's a lush and visually engaging production, including every single word of the play. At four hours it's not short but is well worth watching, particularly for Jacobi's Claudius and Winslet's Ophelia

Even some truly great performances cannot redeem this one from being a cotton candy adaptation. Michelle Pfeiffer and Calista Flockhart are particularly bad, but the Italian settings are lush.

Not a stellar adaptation, but watchable enough. Burton and Taylor seem to be channelling their own problematic relationship here.

Even McKellen can't save this awkward modernization; much of the supporting cast is wretched and the period setting works against the play rather than for it.