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Another big-screen take on the Bard dumbs down classic literature, prioritizes its simpleminded pop music soundtrack.
Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a puppy. A puppy that chews the furniture, soils the rugs and projectile vomits on the guests, but a puppy nevertheless.
The umpteenth attempt to make Shakespeare 'cool' exchanges the original, classic language for forgettable pop songs and unnecessary twists ...
“Juliet and Romeo,” from the writer-director Timothy Scott Bogart and his composer-songwriter brother, Evan Kidd Bogart, is more self-serious. The movie begins, a narrator says, “In the year ...
Jamie Ward stars in the film as Romeo, and Clara Rugaard plays Juliet. The Grammy-winning musician Evan "Kidd" Bogart, along with songwriter Justin Gray, created the soundtrack of the movie ...
The popular star-crossed couple intertwine in musical and romantic disharmony in a reductive refashioning of William ...
The physical space for director Melia Bensussen's treatment of “Romeo and Juliet" at Hartford Stage is spare ... more committed than it is full-bodied.
Boston has seen many versions of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” ballet. The Kirov brought Leonid Lavrovsky’s 1940 Soviet ...
There’s probably never been a time as ripe with “Romeo and Juliet” rip-offs as our contemporary ... like a social media found-footage movie, and 2022’s “Rosaline,” which turned a ...
Interpreting Shakespeare can take a lot of brain power, especially the greatest love story of all time, “Romeo and Juliet,” but ... who plays Lady Capulet, this movie had her singing in ...