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Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) are outnumbered by the detractors ("hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey," Richard Schickel, Time ), who say 1) it's not remotely scary; 2) the sarcasm and self-conscious irony grow tiresome; 3) it's permeated with anti-Arab racism; and 4) the mummy isn't a real mummy, he's "a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect" (David Edelstein,
Critics do express some reservations, mainly about the movie's length and overwrought emotion--as Roger Ebert writes, the film is "operatic in its ambition," and viewers should "[l]eave logic at the door.
Panning Mason & Dixon, the New Republic 's James Wood declares Thomas Pynchon's penchant for allegory tiresome and his alleged cleverness to be overwrought and heavy-handed.
When Contact finally comes alive, it leaves you frightened and thrilled and emotionally overwrought, as only a child can be.
No overwrought corn.