Rotten Tomatoes: Greatest Shakespeare Movies

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Filmmakers have long mined the riches of The Bard to create some of the most lasting and universal stories in the movie history. With his 38 collected tragedies, comedies, and historical epics, Shakespeare remains one of Hollywood's most prolific screenwriters - after all, his works have been turned into films many times over, adapted splendidly by the likes of Franco Zefferelli (Romeo and Juliet), Baz Lurhmann (William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet), Kenneth Branagh (Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It), Orson Welles (Othello) and Akira Kurosawa (Ran).

But which Shakespearean adapatations fared the best with the critics? Find out below in our countdown of the 30 Best Shakespeare Movies of all time. As The Bard himself might say, "To thine own Tomatometer be true..."

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    Henry V

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
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    Ran

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
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    Hamlet

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Kumonosu-jô

    1957 — a.k.a. Throne of Blood, in 16 top lists Check
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    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
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    Richard III

    1995, in 2 top lists Check
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    Romeo and Juliet

    1968, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Lion King

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...

    1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check
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    Forbidden Planet

    1956, in 9 top lists Check
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    Much Ado About Nothing

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hamlet

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
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    The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice

    1951 — a.k.a. Othello, in 6 top lists Check
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    Macbeth

    1948, in 1 top list Check
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    My Own Private Idaho

    1991, in 10 top lists Check
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    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    1971, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Taming of the Shrew

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hamlet

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange...

    1983 — a.k.a. Strange Brew, in 1 top list Check
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    Twelfth Night or What You Will

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Romeo + Juliet

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Merchant of Venice

    2004, in 1 top list Check
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    Prospero's Books

    1991, in 4 top lists Check
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    Othello

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
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    Titus

    1999, in 1 top list Check
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    O

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    Scotland, PA

    2001 — a.k.a. Scotland, Pa., in 0 top lists Check
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    10 Things I Hate About You

    1999, in 2 top lists Check
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    Hamlet

    2000, in 2 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jan 7, 2012; source