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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
HAMLET (PG-13) Shot on huge, bold, dazzlingly well-lit sets, Kenneth Branagh's four-hour version takes place in the ''objective'' glare of what could almost be a surgeon's operating theater. (It's like watching an Elizabethan version of The Shining.) The illumination is visual, and metaphysical, too: This Hamlet remains torturously rational, a man pinned down under the white-hot klieg lights of his own consciousness. If the film's running time sounds like a stunt, it's not: What is gained is a newly slow and subtle arc to Hamlet's descent. A-
Posted Jan 31, 1997
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