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The film follows a heartless ambitious Scottish lord who attains and remains his power with the help of his scheming wife and witches. His violence makes everything seem to be a nightmare.
It's a model of how to stay true to Shakespeare and film without sacrificing one for the other, and if that wasn't evident in 1971, it ought to be obvious now.
September 29, 2014
Chicago Reader
The wide-screen visuals swamp the dialogue, and the thematics have been turned inside out -- but that's what movie adaptations ought to do.
I don't know that there's a clear winner in the contest for Roman Polanski's bleakest depiction of human nature. But "Macbeth" is indisputably in the running.