- 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...
-
natural habitats."
Critic Dennis Schwartz wrote: "The
performances are
stagy but
filled with
fiery emotion. The
performers are able to
bring out 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
polished Canadian sci-fi indie,
Vincenzo Natali's
movie is an
ingenious but
stagy attempt at
beginning where Sartre's play No Exit left off: [...] Rosenbaum...
- very
promising at first, "The plot
drifts dangerously toward a
series of
stagy confrontations, but
avoids the obvious: This
movie has been
written with...
-
stage musical may
forgive Rent its flaws, but weak direction,
inescapable staginess and an
irritating faux-boho
pretension prevent the film from connecting...
-
heroine of just what it's
looking for. At once
underdramatized and
faintly stagy, it
keeps promising revelations that
never quite materialize". In her review...
