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 %89 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
46 %2,258 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."
Flicks"More strained than inspired."
Variety"Perfectly respectable, but it won’t linger in the memory like Luhrmann’s."
Total Film"Will likely become a cheat sheet for slacking students, but it won’t inspire them to open their hearts to the text."
Time Out"A sufficiently entertaining, adamantly old-fashioned adaptation... [doesn't] rise to the passionate intensity of its star-cross’d crazy kids."
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."
The Guardian"An abbreviated version that preserves the high points, zips past the rest, and never approaches the depth of the full text."
The Dissolve"[A] pretty but unexciting enactment."
Hollywood ReporterRomeo and Juliet (2013) | Details
- Runtime
- 118
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- UK, Italy, Switzerland
