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New York 's David Denby joins in the general celebration of the film Kolya and its accompanying Czechophilia: "The movie speaks quietly, in the chamber-music tones of ...
Evita has three main problems, according to critics: 1) It lacks humanity--"This is a weird, inert, terribly distant piece of moviemaking," says New York 's David Denby.
I think Denby is right in saying that these are the twin poles, but most critics actually fall somewhere on the continuum between them.
The screenplay, too, "succeeds in preserving the mandarin lyricism of Woolf's language without slipping into the 'poetic' " (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). Critics also applaud Vanessa Redgrave's turn as the wistful middle-age English socialite--the only actress, says New York 's David Denby, "large enough to hold together this plotless story."
Most pin the blame on the dreary, endless lawsuit; as David Denby puts it, "a movie that reaches a climax with the hero writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency has landed in a certain amount of trouble" ( The New Yorker ). Richard Schickel of Time disagrees, calling the film "smart, tough, yet curiously moving."
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