 Jeanette Nolan performed the role in Orson Welles ' 1948 film adaptation and was critiqued by Bosley Crowther in the New York Times of 28 December 1950 : " The Lady Macbeth of Jeanette Nolan is a pop @-@ eyed and haggard dame whose driving determination is as vagrant as the highlights on her face . Likewise , her influence upon Macbeth , while fleetingly suggested in a few taut lines and etched in a couple of hot embraces , is not developed adequately . The passion and torment of the conflict between these two which resides in the play has been rather seriously neglected in this truncated rendering . " Michael Costello of Allmovie has described her performance as " uneven " and has also stated , " Her unique Lady Macbeth is either an exhibition of rank scenery @-@ chewing or a performance of intriguingly Kabuki @-@ like stylization . " 
