All Is True
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 21, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 8, 2019
Consequently, while it's stocked with moments of heartfelt appreciation for the craft, it plays more like a 17th century soap opera than anything else. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMay 13, 2019
No, what’s dismaying about All Is True is that it plays so slow and loose. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Simran HansFeb 13, 2019
I like Branagh’s eye for landscapes too; space is used elegantly, while widescreen canvases glow green and orange. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraFeb 6, 2019
A quiet and meditative portrait of the artist as a retiree, this lacks incident or high stakes but has an elegiac feeling of regret and reckoning that fits its subject’s twilight years. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDec 21, 2018
A labor of love, to be sure, but a simple, small-scaled domestic drama with none of the broad appeal of the hugely popular "Shakespeare in Love" of 1998, this thoroughly respectable Sony Classics pickup will command the interest mostly of older-skewing art house habituees. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 22, 2019
All is True is expertly acted and handsomely filmed but suffers from an excess of sentimentality, a rash of revelations, and a surfeit of subtext, with characters blurting out the hidden motives for their behavior instead of simply behaving them. I imagine Shakespeare himself might be simultaneously tickled and appalled. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 22, 2019
Unfortunately no amount of self-confidence can sustain All Is True, Branagh’s stab at filling in the blanks of Shakespeare’s retirement, about which there is little officially known. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghMay 14, 2019
How do you make a legend as imposing as Shakespeare flesh? All Is True suggests you can't, if not even Branagh, Dench, McKellen, et al. can bring him down to earth. Maybe it's for the best that the real man is unknowable, that man is simply the work itself. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichDec 24, 2018
The result is a portrait that’s equally sullen and playful, clever and confused; for all its pleasures, All Is True never amounts to the sum of all the many parts that Shakespeare may have played in his time or thereafter. Read full review
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TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanDec 23, 2018
It’s hard to say whether Branagh is concerned about getting things wrong, or of being disrespectful. But he never finds the freedom he’s unlocked so often in Shakespeare’s own works. His ambition is honorable, but without substance, it becomes merely the shadow of a dream. Read full review
50
SlateIsaac ButlerDec 21, 2018
All Is True does not work as a film, but as a memorial to a writer whose shadow we are still working in today, and an expression of yearning to know who he really was, it has an odd vitality that cannot be completely dismissed. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleDec 19, 2018
A fitfully engaging, well-intentioned but disappointing original biographical drama. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMay 29, 2019
Some of the interplay between Branagh and Dench as a refamiliarizing couple is also delightful. However, apart from fleeting pleasures, All Is True is mostly a goodie bag stuffed for Shakespeare completists. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 9, 2019
Its inventions and speculations aren’t very interesting. Nowhere do they hint at the man who gave us the plays. Read full review
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