- runs half an hour
longer than the 1966 film, and
could be
considered "
stagier" than that film,
which divided the
Common Man into
several more realistic...
- striking, eyecatching, graphic;
markets self-appearance; is synthesized,
stagy;
simulates desirable/dramatic poses.
Infantile histrionic (Including borderline...
- "cool": "A robust, athletic,
sometimes explosive player,
Douglas loved stagy rhetoric, and he did
everything p****ionately."
Douglas had also starred...
-
disturbing nightmare of the
upper middle classes, with
tinges of
melodrama and
staginess,
entirely appropriate for its air of
suppressed psychosis." He
noted some...
-
other than a bit of
choice language. The
direction is
depressingly flat and
stagy,
Wilder running on empty.
While it is easy to see why he was
attracted to...
- also
commented that the
movie "is
beautifully produced,
better than the
stagy 1958 film" and
praised the singing. Kenrick, however,
dislikes the adaptation:...
- She also
noted that the
movie "is
beautifully produced,
better than the
stagy 1958 film. ... The
other cast members,
including Ms. Close, also sing well...
- memorable".
Howard Thompson of The New York
Times panned it as "tedious and
stagy with
little sparkle and
precious little humor". Gene
Siskel gave the film...
-
anchors American Son with her
nervy turn as a
concerned mother, but the
staginess of the
production ill-serves its heavy-handed
social commentary." On Metacritic...
- Nash,
Chris (November 30, 2017). "Woody Allen's
Wonder Wheel is shrill,
stagy, and skippable: EW review".
Entertainment W****ly. Time.
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