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...differently, or smile any less. They do, however, make lots of silly ghost sounds and giggly cackles. They hiss a great deal, as well, as they bound about the stage, apparently carrying out very complex, though incomprehensible, choreography. Unfortunately their bumping and stomping is very loud on the hollow wood stage, and distracts from the sorcerer and main witches. One can only wonder at the lack of discernment which allowed the director either to encourage or to tolerate these devices. Dimpled and angelically beaming, the chorus' strange behavior during the witches' seance only heightened the viewer's impression that...
...late '80s with the seminal Boston indie-pop band Blake Babies, Hatfield has built a career around her girlish, often straining voice and simple, pop driven song structures. The recent release of Please Do Not Disturb, however, marked a sharp departure for the Boston-based artist. With its hollow, often menacing production, heavily distorted bass guitar and aggressive, direct lyrics, the EP opened up for her a whole new arena of musical possibilities. Hatfield's show reflected all of the strengths and weaknesses of the new approach...
Unfortunately, she represents that female so explicitly that the show seems hollow and calculated even by TV standards. Peter Roth, head of Fox Entertainment, says he asked Kelley to create a series with a strong female lead to fill the time slot after Melrose Place, which is popular among young women. In other words, the demographics came first, and the provenance shows. You feel as if Kelley gathered a list of themes from focus groups and then set about addressing them methodically and baldly. In one of the many declarations the show makes about its heroine--in case anyone missed...
...this amazing play upon our need for emotion is really to the movie's credit. In retrospect, though Seven Years in Tibet seems at first to proceed slowly and aimlessly, it is this gradual start that makes the closing catharsis so compelling and skillful--a quick change fulfilling, not hollow...
...movie's ending is sudden and inexplicably hollow: instead of focusing on any of the various types of violence portrayed, the film switches into epic mode and portrays Mike Max as a changed man who is grateful that he's been robbed of his job, his life and his identity. Several key questions are left unanswered...