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Metascore
32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAlmereyda excises big chunks of plot to shape his vision, but retains Shakespeare's language and pays such rigorous attention to meaning and subtext that what's missing isn't missed.
- 80Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThou wilt be dazzled.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBoth a distraction and a revelation.
- 75San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisHamlet finds in Hawke's greatish performance a Great Dane for this, or any other, modern moment.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanStylish, funny, and smart...but only up to a point.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenBill Murray's Polonius is so delightfully coy and self-satisfied that this performance is reason alone to see the picture.
- 63Baltimore SunAnn HornadayBaltimore SunAnn HornadayAlmereyda has done a splendid job of rendering Hamlet as expressive visually as it is verbally.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThis slacker prince (Hawke) comprises a sinkhole at the center of adaptor-helmer Michael Almereyda's otherwise compelling contempo update.
- 50USA TodaySusan WloszczynaUSA TodaySusan WloszczynaBut all the devices and upgrades do little to bring the poetry's meaning into clearer and more relevant focus for today's audiences.
- 38Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanHamlet has audacity, intelligence, a provocative visual and musical style, virtually no poetry, a garbled story line weakened by savage cutting of the play, and a great yawning hole where a Hamlet ought to be.