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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★ 3

  Maybe Othello isn't the best choice for a modern sexy teen Shakespeare adaptation.

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  Review by MaxMS ★★★½

  Ball is life - Shakespeare

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★ 2

  "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.” -Brabantio in Othello (NIF)

  A handful of men destroy themselves because they can't handle not knowing whether Julia Styles is having sex with this one guy. Ah, the power of women.

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  Review by victoria ★★

  i was so confused but josh hartnett hot as always

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  Review by Lawrence ★★★

  i only understand/care about shakespeare when it is translated to an american high school setting

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 5

  the real tragedy is high school kids dont listen to kurupt & n.o.r.e. anymore.. thats a joke but kinda what this is about, teenage drama subtly threading race & class & mimetic desire in a way movies cant before or since (trusted understand mekhi vs north charleston without a "you sold out man!" showdown) hits harder in our childish/simplistic moral age than when i loved it as a teen - everybodys great but the best hartnett's ever been ("just stay on the porch") finally putting his eternally bad vibes to good use while reducing homoerotic subtext to one line, plus i got the hookup's aj johnson in an artsy/indie role, r.i.p.

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  Review by rachel ★½ 2

  my english teacher really woke up and chose to make my entire class watch a bizarre, ~sexy~ teen romance shakespeare adaptation with an aggressive amount of puma product placement

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  Review by Jay D 's Watching ★★

  It's a frustrating time when you can see the themes of a film shining through and you can see the talent the actors on a screen possess and you can understand why the film seemed like a good idea, but it just doesn't click. Tim Blake Nelson directs this and there are a lot of good shots in it-it's often creatively staged and he does a good job of situating his actors in space, but the script is largely utilitarian, hitting the bare-bones plot points of Othello and wedging them into a parable about Black and White America, prep school basketball and competitiveness and jealousy and racism and toxic masculinity that could provide feasible material for half a dozen different…

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  Review by chance. 6

  julia stiles wears a confederate flag tank top

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  Review by jude ★★★

  think of the messiest bitch you know…it’s a man isn’t it

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  Review by ToonrificTariq ★★★½

  We watched this in high school instead of reading Othello.

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  Review by Ella ★★★½

  Josh hartnett screaming, “you herbed us” is better than anything shakespeare actually wrote.