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`Othello' has pulse but lacks poetry
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OTHELLO
Directed and adapted by: Oliver Parker (play: William
Shakespeare)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irene
Jacob, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloney, Anna Patrick
Playing at: Nickelodeon, Kendall Square
Rated: R (some sexuality)
Although Kenneth Branagh plays Iago to Laurence Fishburne's
"Othello," this newest filmed Shakespeare is much closer to Mel
Gibson's "Hamlet" than to Branagh's "Henry V" or "Much Ado About
Nothing." It's straightforward and sturdy and energized -- a
strongly contoured popularization, as opposed to a piece filled with
poetic ...
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