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96% Tomatometer 49 Reviews 80% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" continues to be the most ...
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Hamlet (1948) : Brief Review - Perhaps, the Best Cinematic Adaption of Shakespeare's Legendary Tale with the Richest Vocabulary for any Hollywood film of 40s. I came to watch this film after seeing so many adaptions of Shakespeare's Hamlet, like Kurosawa's Japanese adaption 'The Bad Sleep Well' (1960), Hollywood version of 90s, Bollywood ...
Laurence Olivier. Writers. William Shakespeare. Laurence Olivier. Stars. Laurence Olivier. Jean Simmons. John Laurie. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +6. Add to Watchlist. Added by 34.4K users. 110 User reviews. 60 Critic reviews. 82 Metascore. Won 4 Oscars. 16 wins & 6 nominations total.
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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 96% based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A well-executed labor of love from star and director Laurence Olivier, Hamlet not only proved that Shakespeare could be successfully adapted to the big screen, it paved the way for ...
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Olivier's classic Shakespeare tragedy has themes of revenge. Read Common Sense Media's Hamlet (1948) review, age rating, and parents guide.
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When it comes to captivating filmmaking and epic scale even with limited sets, 1948's Hamlet is an honest masterpiece. Full Review | Original Score: A | Aug 28, 2022. Edwin F. Melvin...
Sep 18, 2000 · Sep 18, 2000. R eviewing Laurence Olivier’s 1948 film of Hamlet, James Agee—then a critic at Time —wrote: “The man who brings Hamlet, his friends, and his antagonists to life has tackled one of the most fascinating and most thankless tasks in show business. . . .