Though now consigned to middlebrow hell by the better critics and shunned by audiences who prefer Kenneth Branagh’s flatulent version, Olivier’s “essay in” Hamlet is still one of the best Shakespearean…  read review

Strong but problematic. The movie is broken-backed, with lots of action scenes frontloaded onto a remainder that adapts Ian Fleming’s noirish novel. The book is composed of three set-pieces which the…  read review