It screws the viewer's courage to the sticking-place, forcing them to look into corners of themselves they would rather not peer.

A terrifying, seemingly irreversible dirge, gloomy and rainy and blood-soaked.

Director Justin Kurzel seems to have set out to answer the question, "What if the supremely ambitious Thane of Glamis (played here by Michael Fassbender) was a druggie?"

'Macbeth' is Shakespeare for Shakespeare nerds.