Lady Macbeth

2016 Directed by William Oldroyd

Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Florence Pugh Cosmo Jarvis Paul Hilton Naomi Ackie Christopher Fairbank Golda Rosheuvel Anton Palmer Rebecca Manley Fleur Houdijk Cliff Burnett David Kirkbride Bill Fellows Nicholas Lumley Raymond Finn Ian Conningham Finn Burridge Jack Robertson Kema Sikazwe Elliot Sinclair Andrew Davis Alan Billingham Bailey Palmer

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English

drama

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Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 10

the milk of human kindness has most definitely gone sour.
can't remember the last time i saw anything that offered such a nuanced, slippery portrait of moral decline [insert joke about the GOP here].
highly recommended for fans of ladies, macbeth, the handmaiden, and / or murder on the moors.
Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★½ 8

My mom: I wonder why they don't want her going outside at all?
*cuts to the 4th sex scene in ten minutes*
Mom: Maybe that's why.
Review by kevinyang ★★★½ 2

I'm making a list called "performances that are better than most of the 2018 Oscar nominations" and Florence Pugh is already on it.
Review by iana ★★★½ 9

if someone asks me what white feminism is i'll show them this movie
Review by brat pitt ★★★ 12

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

normally i live for films about complex women who kill BUT ... it’s impossible to root for a white woman killing a little black boy. it’s totally conceivable that this act was intended to encourage us to not root for her & to demonstrate how evil this woman is. okay. that makes sense. but perhaps choose a different, not overtly racist act so that all of the film’s potential feminist politics don’t fly out the window??
sofia coppola stayed in her lane while making the beguiled & maybe this (white) director should have as well.
Review by josh rosenthal ★★★★ 2

hell hath no fury like a woman bored.
Review by Caitlin ★★★★½

Shakespeare, can you pick me up? I'm scared...
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 3

There aren’t very many words spoken in William Oldroyd’s “Lady Macbeth” — most of the communication is done through sex, abuse, and murder — but not a one of them is wasted or forgotten. Indeed, the film’s emblematically terse first exchange looms over the 85 minutes that follow like a dark shadow on a bitter day, and it’s proof that Florence Pugh deserves more attention in this year’s competitive awards season.
It’s Katherine’s (Pugh) wedding night, and the 17-year-old bride is being dressed for her deflowering. Her new husband’s chambermaid does the honors, Anna (Naomi Ackie), slipping the girl into her nightgown. “Are you cold?” Anna asks, a valid question on a brutal winter night in the North of England…
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★½ 2

42/100
Even skeptics tend to praise Florence Pugh's performance in the title role, but I submit that her talent obscures some fundamentally poor choices (for which director William Oldroyd shares the blame, of course). An appalling metamorphosis is what's called for, but Pugh works overtime to signal what's coming, right from the outset; she seems disturbed even before the patriarchal nightmare has a chance to warp her. (I suppose one could argue that significant warping occurred throughout the character's childhood, but that's not exactly dramatically satisfying.) Consequently, there's no sense of tragedy or loss here—just a monster whose increasingly horrific crimes are shallowly contextualized by her own mistreatment. Doesn't help that the grand passion that ostensibly motivates Katherine plays like…
Review by lauren ★★★½

2017 really was a big year for mushrooms
Review by willa ★★★½

#JusticeForAnna #I'mWithHer
Review by siobhan ★★★½ 2

florence pugh: what the fuck is fidelity bitch i will kill you

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Review by amazedemon ★★½

Despite a stellar performance from Pugh, Lady Macbeth quickly becomes a chore to watch. There is something viscerally unappealing about a discontented character almost immediately turning to murder to fulfil petty desires. It being a period piece set in a bleak misrepresentation of North East England doesn't help either. Lady Macbeth (from the play) has always been manipulative and power-hungry, and to an extent this is brought over, but it's still not fun (or even compelling) to behold.
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