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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.
But if I tend to get overwrought on the subject, it's only because there's so much noise coming from the other side.
"She's a time-traveling Manhattan Yankee in Plautus's forum, using her distinctive street smarts to find her way, both as a character and as a performer" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Goldberg's self-mocking approach is said to redeem the production from an otherwise overwrought book.
This one--an 1888 symphony by a French Romantic composer--is called an "interesting failure" (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). Its overwrought, "meandering" score (Martin Bernheimer, Newsday ) is accompanied by a highly praised and newly commissioned narration of the Psyché myth by playwright John Guare ( Six Degrees of Separation ).
They have to contend with so much Hollywood hokum that they're driven to overuse of overwrought literary pyrotechnics and banal humor.