Much Ado About Nothing

“Romance. Mischief. Seduction. Revenge. Remarkable.”

Why would Benedick and Beatrice (Emma Thompson), who trade insults every time they meet, ever be tricked into love? Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, join Don Pedro (Denzel Washington) in a week-before-the-wedding scheme to try, while the meddling Don John plots against the ceremony. Branagh plays Benedick himself and fills the ensemble with loud, sunlit, stage-trained energy.