- 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...
-
Daily Beast also gave the film a
positive review and
wrote that its "
staginess is
offset by
their blistering investigation of morality, mani****tion...
- 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...
-
resonance beyond the symbolic, but the
action doesn't
quite transcend the
stagy setup." John
DeFore of The
Hollywood Reporter wrote, "An
engrossing two-hander...
-
stage musical may
forgive Rent its flaws, but weak direction,
inescapable staginess and an
irritating faux-boho
pretension prevent the film from connecting...
-
Chinese cinema, he had to
dissuade many of the
actors from
using a "very
stagy, very
English tradition.
Instead of just
being observed like a
human being...
-
consensus reads, "Despite the rich
source material, The
Producers has a stale,
stagy feel more
suited to the
theater than the big screen." On Metacritic, the...
- 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...
- (billed as the
first 'petrodollar' movie) is
largely due to the
tawdry staginess of all the sets and the
apparent inability of
Moustapha Akkad ... to muster...
