Rotten
Both Oldman and Roth turn in flat and uninspiring performances.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
1991 · 1h 57m · PG
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Tom Stoppard
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Overview
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
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61%
Tomatometer
Rotten
As happens at the opera, one usually laughs (if one laughs at all) not because something is funny, but because one has successfully recognized that it is supposed to be funny.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
As a movie, this material, freely adapted by Stoppard, is boring and endless. It lies flat on the screen, hardly stirring.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Staged as they are here, the jokes and the fourth-wall gamesmanship don't seem as funny as they did on the page.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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