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Ultimately, the show’s oppressive length, tedious scene changes, and convoluted philosophizing obfuscate the majority of its positive elements, which are primarily found in the actors. Perhaps most frustratingly, the production takes what could have been a compelling period epic and spoils it with sluggish direction. The show’s many detriments—coupled with a muddled, slow-moving plot—cause “Danton’s Death” to lose the thrill and excitement that its decidedly dramatic premise could have produced...
...only somewhat less-frightening version of “2012” would involve the end of history arriving with no earthquakes, solar flares, or eruption of mountains in national parks. Instead, the end of history in this epic would arrive incrementally, as societal changes saturate the public sphere with freedom. In this apocalypse, heroism would arise not from a struggle to convince others that the world can be saved from external destruction, but instead that it could be safeguarded from disintegration from within...
...latest album, one may end up hoping that, in fact, her musical career has just begun. A gratifying sophomore release from the precocious folk-rock talent, “I Speak Because I Can” endows Marling’s characteristic elegance with a new intensity and an epic, almost theatrical, vigor...
...full choral accompaniment, deep, forceful piano chords, and the dramatic rumble of orchestral percussion. With a switch to a major key near the end, the song’s brooding quality eventually gives way to a lighter tone, but its passion is maintained. The track ends on a truly epic note, as the full choir’s harmony and the percussion’s deep rumblings ascend to a point of almost religious fervor...
...Train Your Dragon is a little more serious and more ambitious than the signature DreamWorks films - at least as much an action epic as a cartoon comedy. In its loftier moments, it might almost be called Pixarian. But the movie may simply be a detour for the studio, not the hint of a new direction. After all, in May comes Shrek Forever After, in which, we'd guess, the DreamWorks vaudevillians will cavort again...