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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.
But it still all seems a bit odd, since the purported bear market lasted only a few weeks, and was founded on nothing more than overwrought concerns about inflation and a sudden advent of panic about Y2K.
They have to contend with so much Hollywood hokum that they're driven to overuse of overwrought literary pyrotechnics and banal humor.
Her "overwrought prose has gone grotesquely rococo," says Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman.