By: Jonathan Richards Published online: Friday, February 17, 2012 Appeared in: Pasateimpo
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Shakespeare’s Coriolanus to the screen
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has the look and feel of an action flick wrapped in
the rich language of the Bard. Fiennes, head shaved
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