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Hamlet: If there is one character that does need an added slacker sensibility, it is Hamlet. Still, Ethan Hawke captures Hamlet as he would be were Elsinore a Manhattan hotel, Denmark a corporation, and Sam Shepard the ghost of a corporate titan now deposed. All the performances are excellent, with special note to Liv Schreiber's riveting Laertes and Bill Murray's effortless update of Polonious. You might think the modern, New York City locale would make this Hamlet clunky, but it does not. Grade: B+.
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