Most disturbing part was that i was attracted to jared leto !!

As most aronofsky films are, this is absolutely carried by the strength of the lead performance, which is fine, because ellen burstyn gives an all time great performance. But i think aronofky forgot that very few people can operate at her level!

Whenever the film was focused on burstyn, it was near enough perfect; her performance is more than strong enough to make every scene she's in fantastic.…

Easily one of the best shot, best choreographed musicals i've seen! I was blown away watching this now, had i seen this in 1961 my head probably would've exploded. However, while the musical numbers succeed completely, i do think the wider narrative lets it down.

The pacing is very weird - there's very little movement in the story up to, and even past, the intermission, but once bernardo dies everything happens so quickly it prevented me from being able to…

I've always enjoyed titus andronicus a lot more than i feel other people do, but i'm still able to recognise that it's one of shakespeare's weakest plays - maybe even his definitive weakest, if you had to assign that label to a play. But Titus is, somehow, great! Usually film adaptations of shakespeare's works fall short, but in this case, i think the film actually gives the play more than it deserves.

Titus andronicus is, in my opinion, most interesting…