Lady Macbeth is a 2016 period drama film directed by William Oldroyd and written by Alice Birch. The film’s story is based on the 1865 book Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov and ...

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Director William Oldroyd’s debut feature “Lady Macbeth” returns, again and again, to a single shot: Florence Pugh, as Katherine, a young woman forced into a ...

If Shakespeare’s Macbeth gave you the impression that “Lady Macbeth” was based on a single, fully documented person, you’re in for a more intriguing reality. The historical woman often linked to that ...

Reporting from BERKELEY — Lady Macbeth is such a larger-than-life theatrical figure that it’s only natural that audiences would like more information about her than Shakespeare is willing to provide.

Her character is sympathetic at the start of the movie and sociopathic by the end, but Pugh's genius is that she never changes a thing. There aren’t very many words spoken in William Oldroyd’s “Lady ...

Exact and exacting, made with formidable skill and unwavering focus, “Lady Macbeth” is a film that demands to be admired and cares little if you actually like it. A cold and unnerving tale of the twin ...