This turgid melodrama, a shocking success on stage in the 1920s and as a 1941 movie, is shown up as the potboiler it always was, despite latter-day ethnically correct casting.
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Samuel Beckett's existentialist cry of despair spotlights the tedium humans face as they realize that their pursuits and objectives are meaningless.
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"9 to 5" aims low and hits its target squarely. And that's the difference between creating a classic and just a fun but evanescent night out.
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By the play's midpoint, we don't care about any of the characters. By the three-quarter mark, it's still hard to discern the play's viewpoint.
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At the top of the play, a sleepy tousle-headed character emerges from the mysterious upstairs area and descends the stairs onto Takeshi Kata's drab-brown Irish cottage set.
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Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth" is the kind of play for which the word "chestnut" was appropriated.
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As a producer and the star of this 'X-Men' series spinoff, Hugh Jackman apparently had a lot of creative say in the direction of the story: This hoped-for summer blockbuster is wall-to-wall Wolverine, with little room for others.
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In this highly unoriginal riff on the premise of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', Matthew McConaughey sleepwalks through the kind of fluff that Rock Hudson churned out in the 1950s and '60s.
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This lavishly entertaining revue of songs composed by musician-songwriter-entertainer Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904–43) raised eyebrows when it won a best musical Tony in 1978.
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In the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, the great hero Orpheus descends into hell to rescue his recently deceased beloved.
