New York Times
"...Voluptuous and rewarding...[a] vital and sharply intelligent film..." 05/26/200 p.E18Variety
"...Conceptually vivid..." 1/31-2/6/2000 p.37 Rolling Stone
"...A visual knockout....Thou wilt be dazzled..." 06/08/2000 p.82 Film Comment
"...Ingeniously and divertingly updating Shakespeare to corporate New York....HAMLET benefits from playfully iconographic casting..." 03/01/2000 p.45 Entertainment Weekly
"...Jangling and incisive..." -- Rating: A 06/16/2000 p.64 Sight and Sound
"...An insistently tricky piece of conceptual art....The impromptu tone is often charming..." 01/01/2001 p.51-2 Box Office
"...Almereyda has infused HAMLET with such a contemporary sensibility that today's audiences can't help but relate..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 04/01/2000 p.217 Los Angeles Times
"...Almereyda imagines HAMLET taking place in present-day Manhattan with such vigor, insight and originality that the power and immediacy of his film makes Shakespeare accessible in an exciting and provocative manner..." 05/12/2000 p.C14 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Bill Murray is a good choice as Polonius....It demonstrates how Shakespeare, who in a way invented modern English, has so dominated it ever since that his meanings are always broadly clear to us, even despite unfamiliar usages..." 05/19/2000 p.31 | 
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