A disastrous adaptation of an excellent play.
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07/03/08
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
69 %
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Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 18
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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Unfortunately, Stoppard the director does not match the invigorating brilliance of Stoppard the writer.
07/03/08
Top Critic
...On stage, the sprightly teleological riffs and bebop dialogue delight as ends in themselves. Here they're leaden and compromised. What happened?
04/05/06
Tom Stoppard's 1967 morality play has been translated into a high-spirited and well-acted film.
07/10/03
As happens at the opera, one usually laughs (if one laughs at all) not because something is funny, but because one has successfully recognized that it is supposed to be funny.
05/20/03
Top Critic By trying to take advantage of the medium, Stoppard loses track of what makes his work so wonderful. This belongs on the stage.
01/21/03
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