His hair is graying. His nerves are fraying. Denzel Washington’s Macbeth is a man quite literally running out of time — even before he meets those witches.
The early 17th century potboiler “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is the shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Director and adapter Joel Coen, working here without brother Ethan, took on this film version
BRIAN VINER: Directed by Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski on her own, the film is both dazzlingly spectacular and so convoluted as to be largely incomprehensible.