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Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."
The New Yorker 's Calvin Tomkins finds such serenity incongruous with the rest of de Kooning's career: "What's missing is the melodrama of vulgarity.
--you bourgeois slaves to melodrama."
Calling the script "dreadfully predictable" and a "cliché-hugging melodrama" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ), critics complain that it lacks the fun of two other recent dance movie successes, Shall We Dance?
The upshot might be melodrama, but it's melodrama with heart, bones, sinews, and tear ducts.