‘Lady Macbeth’ Director: William Oldroyd Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis Rating: R 4 (out of 5) Globes She doesn’t want our pity. Her name is Katherine, and she’s the purchased bride of ...

Director William Oldroyd’s debut feature “Lady Macbeth” returns, again and again, to a single shot: Florence Pugh, as Katherine, a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with… ...

Lady Macbeth marks Florence Pugh's first lead in a feature film after having moved into acting only two years prior to her casting.

In its opening scenes, it seems like Lady Macbeth has been mistitled. Somewhere in a gloomy, windswept, rural corner of Victorian England, Anna (Naomi Ackie) prepares the young Katherine (Florence ...

Despite Katherine's heart-faced beauty, revealed in depth as Alexander orders her to strip and stand facing the bedroom wall, he is impotent and at least as resentful of the unwanted marriage as ...

Much of the first half of Lady Macbeth does generate a certain delicious black-comic frisson from seeing Katherine become ever bolder in lashing out against the societal strictures imposed on her.

The power of “Lady Macbeth” is that it encourages the viewer to perform a certain moral calculus as Katherine becomes increasingly ruthless.

LADY MACBETH is a wonderfully chilling and unexpected twist on the costume drama, possibly launching a groundbreaking new direction for the genre. This highly-entertaining and intelligent, if ...

Director William Oldroyd’s debut feature “Lady Macbeth” returns, again and again, to a single shot: Florence Pugh, as Katherine, a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with a sexually ...

Though not based on the Bard, the drama "Lady Macbeth" is Shakespearean in its emotional impact, thanks largely to a powerhouse performance by newcomer Florence Pugh. Pugh plays Katherine, a young ...

Despite Katherine’s heart-faced beauty, revealed in depth as Alexander orders her to strip and stand facing the bedroom wall, he is impotent and at least as resentful of the unwanted marriage as ...