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Critic Reviews
The GuardianApr 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Poised and adventurous, this Romeo and Juliet is a hybrid wonder and full of intelligent invention. Emily Burns’s adaptation is sleek and at times feels lean but that is a necessary sacrifice for tension and pace. Director Simon Godwin has given the film a remarkable sense of movement and played with theatrical artifice in deft ways.
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The TelegraphApr 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Ravishing, revelatory account of Romeo and Juliet. O’Connor proves he has the power to be a swoon-making heart-throb without losing his pensive intensity. ... There are interesting directorial strokes at every turn of this 360 degree marvel. ... The performances are high-definition across the board, making you yearn to watch it in a cinema.
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Apr 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Despite its relative simplicity, however, the production is fully immersive, transporting, its emotional power fueled by the lyrical beauty of the language and the unfaltering command of a first-rate cast. ... It's a beguiling hybrid experiment in which a four century-old drama appears before our very eyes to dismantle and reassemble itself spontaneously as a living, breathing, timeless love story destroyed by senseless hatred.
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IndieWireApr 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The most recent film version of “Romeo & Juliet,” airing this week as part of PBS’ long-running “Great Performances” series, gains something profound in separating this cultural touchstone into its component parts. ... “Romeo & Juliet” is both a presentation and a kind of secret, one that’s all the more entrancing by what it chooses to leave hidden.
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Apr 21, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It sounds just about as modern as something 500 years old can sound. Godwin may be directing for a screen for the first time, but he’s a longtime expert at helping actors inhabit verse, and each member of the superb cast swims easily in the language — the meter pulses through them, and every thought is clear.
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