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The Tragedy of Macbeth
Directed by Joel Coen
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. From TMDB
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The Tragedy of Macbeth is a 2021 drama film, directed by Joel Coen, starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and Alex Hassell.
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60 of 83 · most liked firstWas gonna catch up on some 2025 films but decided, since I have Apple TV for a bit, to finally watch the only film from a Coen Brother I haven’t seen yet. #NowWatching The Tragedy of Macbeth #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →What, mine eyes doth see? The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington, Francis McDormand & Brendan Gleeson, directed by Joel Coen as if by Welles possessed, one foot in film, one theater. Silhouettes galore. No mannered elocution. Treachery in blood. Shakespeare for the people.
positive · AI labelView post →Kathryn Hunter as The Weird Sisters in The Tragedy of Macbeth (2022) is one of the most captivating performances on film
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Which has quietly become a defining movie of the Trump era for me. (As distinct from a movie of the COVID era or the Biden era.) It’s a film that taps into the understanding that none of the terrible things happening now are even original.
positive · AI labelView post →The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Directed by Joel Coen stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand (who also produced the film), Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, Harry Melling, Kathryn Hunter, and Brendan Gleeson.
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neutral · AI labelView post →Joel Coen (with scenes from his film "The Tragedy of Macbeth") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is, at its core and despite its style, a quintessential Coens film. It’s about a dude who isn’t as smart as he thinks he is, who feels entitled, making a play that ends up causing massive amounts of collateral damage and accomplishing nothing.
positive · AI labelView post →Joel Coen (with scenes from his film "The Tragedy of Macbeth") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH boxd.it/bt4xzv Stunning gorgeous b&w cinematography, shadowy noir vibe, stark expressionistic sets. Though terrific with text, though, Washington & McDormand are almost too-cool-for-school initially to transition to murder & madness so easily. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is less angry or outraged than it is exhausted. The film knows that this sort of violence and greed - the threat of encroaching fascism - is nothing new. This is adapting a play from the 1620s in the cinematic language of the 1930s to speak to the 2020s.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021). Director: Joel Coen. Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand. Taking another look at this Shakespeare adaptation. Although I viewed only a few years ago, don't remember anything about it. And I love some Macbeth, usually! Denzel got Oscar nod. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →People tend to dismissive of the formalism on display in “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, but the embrace of German Expressionism - the cinematic language of a republic teetering on the edge of a fascist abyss - is central to what the movie is doing. It’s about then, and about now.
positive · AI labelView post →Sorry, Cinematrix, but you can't count 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' as a "Coen Brothers Movie." That's only one Coen. Same goes for 'Drive-Away Dolls.'
neutral · AI labelView post →Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH is about as close as we're likely to get to a modern German Weimar era film. I would not call it expressionist but it's strikingly visually similar to Fritz Lang's NIBELUNGEN saga.
positive · AI labelView post →[REVIEW] Joel Coen - The Tragedy of Macbeth. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1994067 *** **Visually stunning and a brilliant cast!** The visuals are by far the most striking aspect of this movie. *They're absolutely brilliant*! I'm sure the black and white color-scheme and the odd aspect ratio play into this, but it's more than that; **it's incredible cinematography**, and it really helps tell the story and explore the intense emotions of the characters. More than that, **the…
positive · AI labelView post →[REVIEW] Joel Coen - The Tragedy of Macbeth. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1994067 *** **Visually stunning and a brilliant cast!** The visuals are by far the most striking aspect of this movie. *They're absolutely brilliant*! I'm sure the black and white color-scheme and the odd aspect ratio play into this, but it's more than that; **it's incredible cinematography**, and it really helps tell the story and explore the intense emotions of the characters. More than that, **the…
positive · AI labelView post →Favourite film from every decade: 20s Metropolis 30s Adventures of Robin Hood 40s The Maltese Falcon 50s The Searchers 60s Once Upon A Time In The West 70s Le cercle rouge 80s The Long Good Friday 90s Fargo 00s Good Night, and Good Luck 10s Death of Stalin 20s The Tragedy of Macbeth #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →484.) The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) A damn good adaptation of the Scottish play with superlative blocking and production that gives the film a nice surrealist medieval feel. Also, really dug Denzel's portrayal of Macbeth as a man who uses his arrogance as a shield for his fear and madness.
positive · AI labelView post →The Tragedy Of Macbeth wowee zowee thats a good movie
positive · AI labelView post →Gonna play Drive-Away Dolls and The Tragedy of Macbeth simultaneously on two separate TVs and see if I can Zaireeka my way into a new Coen Brothers movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →🍿Review Highlight! Check out this movie review for "The Tragedy of Macbeth" from ReelRanks user @thecriterioncrypt.bsky.social! You should follow them here and on ReelRank. review.reelrank.net/7d42f5f2-cb9... Everything movies, no ads. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Movie Recommendation Day 90: Much Ado About Nothing (1993) & The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) A Denzel-does-Shakespeare double! #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →28 days of movie performances I love 💌❤️ day 7: Denzel Washington as Macbeth in the Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished our first family session of Draw Steel ttrpg. Making dinner: brown rice, lahp-cheung aka candle sausage, fried eggs, boiled lettuce dressed with sesame oil & oyster sauce, and chili radish on the side. Pondering a film après manger: The Tragedy of Macbeth, a very dramatic end to 2025, non?
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's first movie is The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Boy, is "The Tragedy of Macbeth" a gorgeous film. Personally, I've always regarded "Macbeth" as the weakest of the "big four" Shakespearean tragedies as written but - perhaps because of that - it's long lent itself to beautiful cinematic adaptations. Is it his most consistently well-adapted play?
positive · AI labelView post →To be fair, I really don't like Joel's The Tragedy of Macbeth either - I know it's a big hit with film audiences, but a lot of stage folks I know are befuddled by the love for it.
negative · AI labelView post →[REVIEW] Joel Coen - The Tragedy of Macbeth. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1994067 *** **Visually stunning and a brilliant cast!** The visuals are by far the most striking aspect of this movie. *They're absolutely brilliant*! I'm sure the black and white color-scheme and the odd aspect ratio play into this, but it's more than that; **it's incredible cinematography**, and it really helps tell the story and explore the intense emotions of the characters. More than that, **the…
positive · AI labelView post →Malignant, Robot Dreams, Castration Movie, Red Rooms, The Vourdalak, The French Dispatch and Asteroid City, Gridman Universe, Shin Ultraman, The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Green Knight, The Northman, The Munsters, del Toro’s Pinocchio, Rap World… Movies are good.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a Thanksgiving movie. The Tragedy of Macbeth is a Thanksgiving movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is a 2021 American historical thriller film written, directed and produced by Joel Coen, based on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
neutral · AI labelView post →Put on Joel Coen’s THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, and it’s unfortunate that making a film of a 400 year old text and finding new purpose and reason to stage it isn’t respected for the accomplishment. Likely Shakespeare was stained for many by Kenneth Branagh in the ‘90s. This movie fucking rips.
positive · AI labelView post →Shrinking, The Studio, Mythic Quest, the new Spike Lee movie, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Killers of the Flower Moon. I didn’t think CODA should have won the Oscar but it’s a sweet funny movie if you’re looking for something like that
neutral · AI labelView post →The Tragedy of MacBeth is an incredible film. I like everything the Coens do, but this one in particular has great cinematography. The way he figured out how to make Birman Wood go to Dunsinane is a good example. 4/4 #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Making a new Coen brothers movie by editing together The Tragedy of Macbeth and Drive-Away Dolls.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie reviews for people who like movies: . Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+) - 5/5 . Luck (Apple TV+) - 4/5 . The Tragedy of Macbeth (Apple TV+) - 4/5 . Fly Me To The Moon (Apple TV+) - 4/5 . Finch (Apple TV+) - 4/5 . #moviereviews
neutral · AI labelView post →in about an 8 month span in 2021-2022, we got FOUR great movies about fucked up dudes getting their heads chopped off in medieval times (The Green Knight, The Last Duel, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Northman), which is like, probably my favorite kind of movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Denzelmber — our monthlong celebration of Denzel Washington's upcoming 70th birthday — continues with George Dibble's look at Washington's work with the words of the Bard in THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. midwestfilmjournal.com/2024/12/06/d...
neutral · AI labelView post →58. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play, and this movie, with its medieval brutalism, spare costuming, and minimalist nightmare aesthetic, crushes it. I just wanna see Denzel Washington’s Shakespearean powerhouse era happen.
positive · AI labelView post →Next, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021): Utterly beautiful—Bruno Delbonnel steals the show w/ the monochrome look of the film. Its commitment to mythic gravitas comes at the expense of emotionally intimacy. Is it deranged to read it as a veiled reflection on Joel’s hiatus from making movies with Ethan?
neutral · AI labelView post →The film is painterly and full of imagery out of mid-career Bergman. Coen and Delbonnel make The Tragedy of Macbeth look like a horror film, and the eerie haunted feel seeps into every scene. There is something of The Virgin Spring about The Tragedy of Macbeth.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) and rated it 4 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/mo333/film/the-tragedy-of-macbeth/ #FilmSky 📽️🎥
positive · AI labelView post →NW for my money the best movie of 2021. The Tragedy of Macbeth was recently released on PVOD. A welcome surprise for those of us who don't remember our Apple passwords. Have you ever tried to reset one of those? It's crazy. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →CHECK OUT MY LATEST BLOG! MOVIE REVIEWS! of the Oscar-winning features, "THE BRUTALIST" and "ANATOMY OF A FALL", plus reviews of "THE WILD ROBOT", "FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA", "THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Coen)", "WAITRESS: THE MUSICAL" and "EL PLANETA"! davidbaruffi.blogspot.com/2025/05/movi...
neutral · AI labelView post →365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 28/365 Roman Polanski - The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Best film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, in my opinion. He just crushed it as Macbeth and made the language come alive so well and naturally. On the level of the live Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions, but I get to see it more than once.
positive · AI labelView post →The Tragedy of Macbeth (may not be your thing - I liked it, for what that’s worth - but unusually for a movie it seems to be only available with an AppleTV subscription; can’t even be rented from Apple).
positive · AI labelView post →Did you watch The Tragedy of Macbeth? I saw it in a nice little indie movie theater when it came out, so unsure if it translates as well to smaller screens, but it's absolutely lovely. Feels like watching a play with it's minimalism, and the acting is superb.
positive · AI labelView post →When I saw The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) a lad two seats up ate crisps all the way through. Crisps! Crunch Crunch Crunch all the way through that film. All the atmosphere of it. Crunch Crunch Crunch
negative · AI labelView post →I've been in the mood to watch Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, which I really liked. Unfortunately, it's held hostage by Apple TV and I'm unwilling to pay a monthly ransom for one movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Just finished up The Tragedy Of Macbeth. Absolutely fantastic movie.
positive · AI labelView post →i watch all the time lol. but some recs! 1. Shrinking 2. Foundation 3. The Tragedy of MacBeth (film w/ Denzel) 4. The Changeling (episode 7 about the main character's mother is one of my fave episodes of TV) there's a few i watched that were more middling (changeling might be that too)
neutral · AI labelView post →Unforgettable as the witches in the recent 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched a film starring maybe the greatest working actor, greatest working actress, and directed by the greatest working director, and it has been all but been forgotten even though it’s throwing heaters from frame one. That’s right, I watched THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021). Masterpiece.
positive · AI labelView post →i checked and the closest thing i have to a "serious" movie in my 5-stars is The Tragedy of Macbeth, and shakespeare was a deeply unserious writer. but when i say i love movies, i mean i love low movies, genre movies, stoner comedies, silly gay shit, colorful musicals, kissing movies, etc
neutral · AI labelView post →Apple TV+ is the only place where you can find all-time classics like The Tragedy of MacBeth and Good Burger. tv.apple.com/us/movie/goo...
neutral · AI labelView post →My Criterion Collection wish list: -Mank -The Tragedy of Macbeth -Palm Springs -Killers of the Flower Moon -A Kurosawa box set -A Scorsese box set 📽️ filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Last movie I saw for the 1st time: The Tragedy of Macbeth. Fantastic Shakespearean drama. Last movie I saw including rewatching: Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins. Equally fantastic Shakespearean drama.
positive · AI labelView post →Joel Coen - The Tragedy of Macbeth. **Visually stunning and a brilliant cast!** The visuals are by far the most striking aspect of this movie. *They're absolutely brilliant*! I'm sure the black and white color-scheme and the odd aspect ratio play into this, but it's more than that; **it's incredible cinematography**, and it really helps tell the story and explore the intense emotions of the characters. More than that, **the acting is incredible**, *especially Frances McDormand*, she really…
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