Jody O'Neil

All Is True is a fascinating, if clunky, and often soapy, expose of Shakespeare's tortured family life in Stratford-Upon-Avon following years of success and reknown. Scenes of mounting domestic soul bearing fall in on each other resulting in a general sense of viewer exhaustion, affording scant overt sympathy. But the lighting is splendid and Ian McKellen is at his stealthy best as the beloved subject of the Bard's sonnet that dare not speak it's name. But, even at that, the B-52s want their wig back.