Measure for Measure

Name: Measure for Measure
Genre: Drama
Released: September 3, 2020
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Christie Whelan Browne, Claude Jabbour, Daniel Henshall, Doris Younane, Fayssal Bazzi

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Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date (Streaming): September 3, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Christie Whelan Browne, Claude Jabbour, Daniel Henshall, Doris Younane, Fayssal Bazzi, Gerald Lepkowski, Harrison Gilbertson, Hugo Weaving, John Brumpton, Josh McConville, Mark Leonard Winter, Megan Smart

Summary: An unlikely love ignites between a modern Muslim girl and a local musician amongst the background of racial tension, amphetamines and gang culture in the city’s notorious housing estate.

Director: Paul Ireland

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 107 min

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Josiah Teal

Sep 8, 2020

Measure for Measure is a collection of great performances by both seasoned and up-and-coming actors. Read full review

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Sep 3, 2020

Ireland and Hill have crafted a layered Shakespearean adaptation that is intricate and immersive — a description that applies to the performances, including Winter in a role which was originally earmarked for Hill. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 3, 2020

I haven’t seen Measure for Measure on the stage in years, but the rough shape of it forms in the mind watching this adaptation, its hits (characters) and the reasons it’s called “a problem play.” And those bones, a poignant romance, betrayals and mercy coming from the most unexpected places and vivid characters, pretty much save this film, or at least make it watchable. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Sep 4, 2020

Based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, Paul Ireland’s Measure for Measure is filled with drama, although perhaps not the kind you’d expect from the Bard. No, this is a modern-day adaptation—one grappling with xenophobia, drug addiction, and gun violence. There are no period costumes here, but there’s a stone-faced Hugo Weaving to make up for it. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Sep 7, 2020

Though much of it is glum and muddled, it does find an anchor in Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix) as a gravely wise, ailing crime boss named Duke. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 3, 2020

Glancing social commentary — like the difficulties of cultural assimilation and the invisible wounds of war — is welcome, but the script (by Ireland and Damian Hill, who died in 2018) is too cluttered for it to resonate and too mired in a muddle of sin and redemption. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 3, 2020

The literary source is one of only a couple of real draws in what is otherwise a fairly routine present-day crime saga. Read full review

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