Word: burtons
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This is rather a thin tale, not much thickened by Burton's direction or Depp's playing. There's a distance, a detachment to this film. It lacks passion. This was a defect of Dahl's novel as well as the first movie version: they never fully embraced the dark side of the story. Children can handle deeper scares than this movie offers. More important, they deserve edgier, more suspenseful storytelling than it provides...
...builds the world's largest candy factory and manages it in a way that could be described as presumptively eccentric. As a backstory for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that is, shall we say, a serviceable invention. The same might be said of Tim Burton's new movie adaptation of this apparently unstoppable media property. It's all right without being particularly riveting...
...Supreme Court temporarily forbade a special corruption tribunal to issue a verdict in the case. One military dissident dismissed Marcos' latest effort as "all smoke and mirrors and distraction." Maybe so, but that--and luck--still seem to be working in Marcos' favor. --By George Russell. Reported by Sandra Burton and Nelly Sindayen/Manila
...essay the role of the brooding, mordantly comic, half-mad prince is to brave comparison with Garrick and Booth, Burton and Olivier. Kline may not yet rank among that pantheon, but he has vaulted over his contemporaries with this production. His performance ripens and changes night by night. It still seems unfinished in some scenes, too cautious in others, and is on the whole a bit quiet and constrained to energize a melodrama nearly four hours long. But he speaks the text with clarity and command, and he makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger...
...dollars for the gurus and probably started a few graduates on the path to success. But many mortgage lenders and real estate brokers, irritated by shaky financing schemes proposed to them by the no-money-down graduates, think the preachers make it look much too easy. Says Mary Burton, owner of a Chicago real estate agency: "People who call in after these seminars want everything. They want a cheap price, a good location and terrific terms. I see it as a waste of time...