Faithful Shakespeare adaptation with Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Douglas Booth (LOL) as the doomed, star-crossed lovers. Written for the...
Faithful Shakespeare adaptation with Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Douglas Booth (LOL) as the doomed, star-crossed lovers. Written for the screen by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey and writer of films including Gosford Park and The Young Victoria. Co-stars Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti.
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24 %88 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
46 %2,262 reviewsAudience score rating
14+Age suitabilityChildren & Media rating
"William Shakespeare's classic romance has been made into a musical (West Side Story), an animation (Gnomeo and Juliet) and MTV (Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet), among other things, so it's hard to know where's left for it to go onscreen."
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Flicks
Flicks"More strained than inspired."
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Variety
Variety"Perfectly respectable, but it won’t linger in the memory like Luhrmann’s."
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Total Film
Total Film"Will likely become a cheat sheet for slacking students, but it won’t inspire them to open their hearts to the text."
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Time Out
Time Out"A sufficiently entertaining, adamantly old-fashioned adaptation... [doesn't] rise to the passionate intensity of its star-cross’d crazy kids."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It has a sort of soapy reliability, but compare it to the blazing passion of Baz Luhrmann's modern-day version with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danesin gangland LA and it looks pretty feeble."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"An abbreviated version that preserves the high points, zips past the rest, and never approaches the depth of the full text."
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The Dissolve
The Dissolve"[A] pretty but unexciting enactment."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterRomeo and Juliet (2013) | Details
- Rating
- M, Violence
- Runtime
- 118
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- UK, Italy, Switzerland
