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Metascore
32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawAll Is True is sentimental, theatrical, likable – and unfashionable.
- 80Screen DailyJonathan RomneyScreen DailyJonathan RomneyA tender, intelligent imagining of the playwright in retirement.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyDana SchwartzEntertainment WeeklyDana SchwartzThere is a beautiful, surprising, and entirely engrossing film within this movie; it’s just almost impossible to find among the establishing shots of ponds and endless subplots of real-life characters introduced for seemingly no other reason than to help make this movie perfect for sophomore year high school classes.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyA labor of love, to be sure, but a simple, small-scaled domestic drama with none of the broad appeal of the hugely popular "Shakespeare in Love" of 1998, this thoroughly respectable Sony Classics pickup will command the interest mostly of older-skewing art house habituees.
- 50Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleA fitfully engaging, well-intentioned but disappointing original biographical drama.
- 50TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanTheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanIt’s hard to say whether Branagh is concerned about getting things wrong, or of being disrespectful. But he never finds the freedom he’s unlocked so often in Shakespeare’s own works. His ambition is honorable, but without substance, it becomes merely the shadow of a dream.
- 50IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThe result is a portrait that’s equally sullen and playful, clever and confused; for all its pleasures, All Is True never amounts to the sum of all the many parts that Shakespeare may have played in his time or thereafter.
- 25ObserverOliver JonesObserverOliver JonesForget all of it being true; I would have settled for some of it being interesting.
- 20VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe result is a revisionist fiasco, too dense with Shakespeare allusions for casual moviegoers, and too fast and loose with the facts for those who know a thing or two about the man. In short, All Is True takes the English language’s most gifted dramatist and reduces his sunset years to a sloppy soap opera.