Movie reviews: Macbeth, The Martian, The Intern

Justin Kurzel’s version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (15A) opens with an extraordinarily vivid battle scene, as loyal Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) goes to war on behalf of King Duncan (David Thewlis).

The tone is set from the off: a brutally grim 11th century reality set against a quasi-mythical backdrop of a wild, mist-shrouded landscape, the setting mirroring the untameable ambition that lurks in Macbeth’s breast.