Hamlet Reviews

Here are a few selected comments from Hamlet reviews. There are over 97 reviews on the Movie Review Query Engine alone for this film. We hope you enjoy reading the few we've selected and the comments made on Kate Winslet's stunning Ophelia.

Comments on Kate Winslet's Performance

"The only standout is Kate Winslet's emotionally charged portrait of Ophelia."

(Christopher Brandon - Rough Cut)

"Kate Winslet, who herself looks like a creation of 19th century pre-Raphaelite painters (upon whom some of the film's visual imagery seems to be based), is a florid and hearty if confused Ophelia, in welcome contrast to the whiny pushover the character is usually played as."

(Peter Brunette - Film.com)

"Kate Winslet oozes sexual tension as the doomed Ophelia."

(Mike Clark - USA Today)

"Kate Winslet is touchingly vulnerable as Ophelia, red-nosed and snuffling, her world crumbling about her."

(Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times)

"Kate Winslet, in her fussy hairdos and corsetted dresses, is Marianne again from Sense And Sensibility, but when she clung fast to the gate at Elsinore and keened for Polonius, I know I wasn't the only one thinking of her matter-of-factly unhinged performance in Heavenly Creatures."

(Ann Gorman - Ekrano Magazine)

"Kate Winslet is a sensuous and ultimately tragic Ophelia."

(Bruce Kirkland - Toronto Sun)

"Winslet's Ophelia is magical and she makes the most of this character's jerky transitions from innocence to insanity."

(Adrienne Martini - Austin Chronicle)

"Kate Winslet is well-cast as Ophelia, bringing an air of vulnerability to the role, which, when combined with flashbacks showing a sexual relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia, makes the character's eventual emotional breakdown more believable to contemporary audiences."

(Ivana Redwine)

"Kate Winslet delivers the best performance of her short but talented career as the fragile and vulnerable Ophelia. When Ophelia goes mad, you believe it."

(Steve Rhodes)

"Kate Winslet is an affecting Ophelia, barred by her father Polonius from consorting with Hamlet, the man she loves."

(Barbara Shulgasser - San Francisco Examiner)

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