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[of] ducking his handsome head and raising his eyes" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ), finally emerges as a movie star.
This is low-tech inventiveness at its best" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). BWP is "the new face of movie horror" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ), and it ends with "as heart-stopping a climax as any the genre has seen in years" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The Los Angeles Times ' Kevin Thomas demurs, knocking it as "a clever, entertaining stunt, no more, no less," but Joe Morgenstern (the Wall Street Journal ) advises, "Don't see this ingenious first feature if you believe in ghosts."
Peter Travers' generally negative review in Rolling Stone concedes that the movie is "loaded with cool stuff" and that "in terms of visual sophistication ...
Director Alan Rudolph gets credit for trying to adapt Kurt Vonnegut's beloved novel, but critics agree that the result is a "frenzied film that seems both dated and dead on arrival" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). Stephen Holden of the New York Times writes that it "looks and feels like a frantic live-action psychedelic cartoon ...
It's a trick other people have used--P.L. Travers, in the Mary Poppins books, for example, always has a chapter in which one of the kids loses her temper, one in which we visit a relative of Mary Poppins' for tea, one in which Mary has a birthday, and so on.