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The other day I went to a movie and the experience moved me to tears.

The Coen Brothers (Joel and Ethan) are fascinated with storytelling — so fascinated that their movies have jumped from genre to genre.

Of course Macbeth is a Coen brothers movie. The Scottish play is essentially a caper: A criminal plot is hatched and executed, kind of like in Raising Arizona or Fargo. As in The Ladykillers — criminally overlooked, by way — the conspiracy goes off without a hitch just before the midpoint of the action, after which the pitiless hand of cosmic justice initiates a long and bloody rebalancing.

Arrogance and energy.

Filmmaker Joel Coen brings a trimmed-down, sparse theatrical version of the Shakespeare play to the screen, says Jeffrey Wilson.

KUNR entertainment reviewer Robin Holabird takes a look at the film “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

The iconic actor also discussed working on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom alongside late actor Chadwick Boseman .

Movie review of THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, Kathryn Hunter

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand breathe 'modern' life to Shakespeare's revered play, Macbeth, in The Tragedy of Macbeth. Read Pinkvilla's review below.

Macbeth, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1606–07 and published in the First Folio of 1623. The play chronicles Macbeth’s seizing of power and subsequent destruction, both his rise and his fall the result of blind ambition.