Looking for Richard

Pros: Wow! What can I say! Everything about this is a pro!

Cons: no cons here.

Review: I missed Looking for Richard when it was in the movie theaters, so when I noticed it would be on television last night, I cranked it into my schedule. I grew up in theater - first doing acting, then design and directing, and now writing. I love the...

Pros: Richard III, Pacino

Cons: none

Review: Richard III is possibly Shakespeare's most difficult, and most stunning play. It details the rise and fall of King Richard as he hacks and kills his way to the throne.
Richard, the hump backed protagonist, is one of the most engaging characters ever...

Pros: Al Pacino

Cons: to less historical facts

Review: This documentary about searching for Richard III in the Shakespeare play helped me a lot to get more in touch with Shakespeare. I started to love this writer. I learned some new details about Richard III and another point of view given by Al ...

Pros: Makes Shakespeare accessible, great information, highly educational, good pacing

Cons: fairly standard technically

Review: Where was Al Pacino when I was taking Shakespeare 101 at the University of Illinois? For that matter, I wish Pacino had made Looking for Richard about 20 years ago, so I could have used it with my English classes. I had the same goal as Pacino –...

Pros: informative, interesting, good introduction to the Bard

Cons: can be a little too professorly

Review: I fell in love with the works of William Shakespeare when I was twelve years old. I had a friend who would give me reading lists every week and we would discuss the books we'd read at the end of the week. One week Hamlet was on that list and the play...

Pros: A great study for Shakespeare lovers

Cons: Slow paced

Review: "It sucks!" says one guy interviewed on the street by Al Pacino, in this documentary, "Looking for Richard." The guy is referring to Shakespeare in general, but the point is well taken that actors these days have a tough job...

Pros: Informative and interesting glimpse behind the scenes

Cons: A bit slow-paced, a trifle self-indulgent

Review: A friend of mine who can't stand Shakespeare loves this documentary and recommended it to me highly. (Yes, it is a documentary, despite its peculiar categorization here.)

I happen to enjoy Shakespeare very much, and I also enjoyed Looking...

Pros: There's some clever people talking about Shakespeare...

Cons: ... and then Al Pacino...

The Bottom Line: Don't bother. Watch the Ian McKellen version. He's British. There, I said it.

Review: Richard III is a great play, even judged purely within Shakespeare’s canon. One of his greatest tragedies, and almost indisputably the finest of his historical pieces, with all sorts of quotable bits. It mutilates the actual events of Richard of Glouceste ...