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    What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies

    The focus of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," now streaming on Apple TV+, naturally falls on Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who star as an older-than-usual Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. But lurking through the film is an attention-grabbing figure, as sinister as he is striking, who seems to be fighting on both sides of the battle between good and evil. The mystery of his identity ...
    by Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Jan 17, 2022 6 minutes

    The focus of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," now streaming on Apple TV+, naturally falls on Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who star as an older-than-usual Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

    But lurking through the film is an attention-grabbing figure, as sinister as he is striking, who seems to be fighting on both sides of the battle between good and evil. The mystery of his identity may have some viewers feeling the need to brush up their Shakespeare. A good place to start would be Roman Polanski's 1971 film of "Macbeth."

    Ross isn't usually considered one of the plum supporting roles in Shakespeare's play, at least not compared with Banquo or Macduff. But Coen invests the character with diabolical purpose, giving him a hand in the machinations that only escalate after Macbeth murderously seizes the throne.

    Dressed sleekly in in black, his goatee walking a fine line between sexy and sociopathic, Alex Hassell's Ross moves from the murky periphery of

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