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There’s a good chance you’re not as enthused about Shakespeare as you are about the return of Tiger King 2.

Yes, there will be a second season, but let’s wait for a trailer to drop before we get too worked up.

The Tragedy Of Macbeth, from director Joel Coen, isn’t your typical Shakespearian classic, though.

It also isn’t your typical Coen brothers movie, in that Joel is actually working without Ethan.

The Guardian calls it an “austere reimagining of Shakespeare’s Scottish bloodbath” with reviewer Peter Bradshaw awarding it five stars.

Denzel Washington plays the titular role, but he’s not the only big hitter:

This Macbeth is in many ways similar to the Coen brothers’ black-and-white crime thriller The Man Who Wasn’t There, which had Frances McDormand as the barber’s wife, brooding and suffering, a lot like Lady Macbeth.

And McDormand is of course Lady Macbeth here, a role she was born to play, bringing a hard-won domestic authority and her own sort of military determination to the plan to kill King Duncan…

The movie hits its stride immediately with a taut, athletic urgency and it contains some superb images – particularly the eerie miracle of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane, with Malcolm’s soldiers holding tree-branches over their heads in a restricted forest path and turning themselves into a spectacular river of boughs. This is a black-and-white world of violence and pain that scorches the retina.