We rate all of Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean directorial efforts.

“It was making a connection between the man and the work.

A desire to find the human being in Shakespeare,“Branagh previously told EW.

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“It was to find Shakespeare the man behind Shakespeare the work.”

It’s arguably a task Branagh had been working on his entire life.

to punctuate the cadences of iambic pentameter at any moment).

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You want to honor the man and his work without falling prey to putting him on an infallible pedestal.

WithAll Is True,Branagh manages to do mostly all of those things.

It’s boosted by appearances from deft Shakespearean actors like Judi Dench and Ian McKellen.

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Lester, Matthew Lillard, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha

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Henry V - 1989

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ALL IS TRUE Left to Right: Judi Dench as Anne Hathaway, Kenneth Branagh as William ShakespearePhoto by Robert Youngson, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

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HAMLET, from left: Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, 1996, ©Sony Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, from left: Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, 1993. ©Samuel Goldwyn Films/court

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