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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.
2) As wise as Hornby's warning against overwrought adolescent feeling is, the alternatives aren't very appealing.
Complaints about Cannes' overwrought glitz subside during the festival's second week.
Wilde's combination of stylishness and tragedy lends itself perfectly to overcostumed, overwrought Merchant-Ivory-style drama.
Her partner looked past tense, indeed, completely overwrought, and gratefully stood aside.