- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
courtroom setting."
Leonard Maltin said "talk, talk, talk in complicated,
stagy courtroom drama;"
Despite the
mixed reviews the
movie received, most critics...
- also
commented that the
movie "is
beautifully produced,
better than the
stagy 1958 film" and
praised the singing. Kenrick, however,
dislikes the adaptation:...
