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Macbeth 2015
Macbeth is a bombastic, visually amazing and well-acted adaptation of Shakespeare's dark play. I couldn't take my eyes off it, that beautiful it looked, but it might be a case of style over substance. I don't have a big problem with that, but having seen Kurosawa's Throne of Blood a couple of weeks earlier I couldn't help but think he was a bit more subtle in its approach towards the source material than Kurzel was. Most directors fail in comparison to Kurosawa, though, so that's fine. Fassbender is great as usual as Macbeth but Cotillard is a tad under-used, which is a shame really. Not even close to being a masterpiece but I still enjoyed it tremendously because of the reasons above.