Word: contrivedness
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John Ross's production of Macbeth is more than a reading. He has incorporated too many of the elements of drama to call it that. In the process he has created a form of his own. What he has added by way of a spectacle is no mere backdrop; the...
With the new Cézanne now up on the wall, British critics are beginning to concede that the prize was worth capturing. London Observer Critic Nigel Gosling, who had thought the black and white reproduction, first released by the National Gallery, suggested "something intellectual and contrived" about the painting...
Though 36 Hours treats World War II as a preposterous parlor game, for the first hour Writer-Director George Seaton makes it tingling fun to play. The plot sizzles along, so intricately contrived that the film is half over before an audience realizes that the characters tangled up in it...
Dame Rebecca is on firmer ground when she writes about the Communist traitors, who were more knowing and rational than the Nazis. She makes a sharp distinction between the seedy, out-of-sorts types who were attracted to Nazism as an answer to their personal bitterness and the more self...
A bit much? Yes, but it's meant to be. Like Doctor No and From Russia with Love, the two previous Bond bombshells, this picture is a thriller exuberantly travestied. No doubt Goldfinger's formula for box-office gold contains entirely too much brass, but who cares? In...