All Is True

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All Is True

PG-13,

2018,

1h 41m,

History/

Drama

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The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father.

Critics Consensus

Impressively cast and beautifully filmed, All Is True takes an elegiac look at Shakespeare's final days.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Sep 13, 2019

It's almost like Shakespeare wrote this movie.

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Soren Andersen

Seattle Times

Jun 19, 2019

2.5/4

The movie's impressive appearance notwithstanding, Shakespeare's domestic problems do not a classic make.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

May 30, 2019

2/5

Apart from fleeting pleasures, All Is True is mostly a goodie bag stuffed for Shakespeare completists.

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Max Greene

InSession Film

Aug 1, 2024

B+

All is True pushes the boundaries of truth but at all times the film is true to itself, and that’s all one can ask in a world filled with so many truths to uncover.

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Tom O'Brien

Next Best Picture

Jun 14, 2022

6/10

Though much of the film is mere speculation on what the last years of Shakespeare's life may have been like, it is in those extraordinary high points in the film that "All Is True" really does ring true.

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

Aug 15, 2021

B+

A sumptuous film about grappling with joy and sorrow.

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Albus G

Feb 20, 2019

It's a very pretty movie- great interiors and available light. But while I can handle it playing fast and loose with the (very few) facts we have abiout Shakespeare, it's very lightweight, clunkily scripted and appallingly sentiment.

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Albus G

Feb 10, 2019

Loved it. A simple but naunced film. Evenly paced but moving, nods to Shakespeare's work are well woven into the narrative but not overplayed. Branagh is good but Judi Dench steals the show every times she opens her mouth.

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Ron W

Feb 9, 2019

True or not, the film was so boring we walked out the cinema half way through!

Poe W

Feb 9, 2019

A little jewel of a film. I nearly nodded off in the first 20 minutes, but then it got me. Lovely performances especially Dench and Wilder. McKellen and Ken do a great set piece in the middle. Overall I believed it, so All is True.

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Leia S

Feb 8, 2019

Great performances, Judi Dench especially. But very slow and the plot's a bit scattershot. Interesting script but didn't really engage me.

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Synopsis

The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Producer: Kenneth Branagh, Ted Gagliano, Tamar Thomas
Screenwriter: Ben Elton
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: TKBC
Rating: PG-13 (Suggestive Material|Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 21, 2018, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters): May 10, 2019
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 13, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.2M
Runtime: 1h 41m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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