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Anyone who has seen Cassavetes' film can imagine Lumet's and save eight bucks" ( Los Angeles Times ). Lawrence Van Gelder is alone in support, calling it "smoother, funnier, more suspenseful and more endearing" than the first film ( New York Times ). (Compare Rowlands' almost tasteful suit in the poster for the 1980 film with Sharon Stone's racy bustier in the current version.)
This year I nominated Mel Brooks, Doris Day, Miss Peggy Lee, Tina Turner, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Mike Nichols, Stanley Donen, and Sidney Lumet among others.
Among Lumet's defenders are the Los Angles Times ' Kevin Thomas, who says the director makes the unlikely plot twists believable "the old-fashioned way: through interaction with a screen full of strongly drawn, fully dimensioned, psychologically valid characters."
Lumet's tempo and staging are just realistic enough to allow you to resent him for melodramatic devices that slicker directors get away with.
Pans for director Sidney Lumet's remake of a 1980 John Cassavetes film about a tough moll whose heart gets melted by a youngster who falls into her charge: "Easily qualifies as the most tired, unexciting mob movie in recent history" (Godfrey Cheshire, Daily Variety ). Of Sharon Stone as the title character, played by Gena Rowlands in the original, Jack Mathews says: "It's not so much a bad performance as an unnecessary one.