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a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)
To those wont to steep themselves in the writings of the 19th century, a period marked by an emergence of scholarship and of the broad dissemination of knowledge, plumbing the delights of those writings not only for their content but for their controlled and mannered style yields great satisfaction.
As played by Jeremy Brett, Holmes was so eccentric, so mannered, that all attention was drawn to him, rather than to the story--and after you had seen him several times, he elicited giggles rather than puzzlement.
There are stellar turns by Davies, Ribisi, Tom Sizemore as a plodding but good-hearted sergeant, and Edward Burns, whose acting is less mannered when removed from his own movies.
The National League of Junior Cotillions' "Ten Best-Mannered People of 1998."