Word: melodrama
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Director Blake Edwards is uneasy, sometimes even clumsy with outright comedy (A Shot in the Dark, The Party). But he has a sure hand and dapper style for this sort of frivolous melodrama, essentially a Saturday night diversion. The violence here is subdued, the suspense unhurried and unruffled...
Nader was abruptly transformed into a national celebrity quite by mischance. After Unsafe at Any Speed, G.M. foolishly set detectives on the trail of its obscure critic. When a Senate subcommittee aired this Goliath v. David melodrama, Nader became a hero of just about everybody who feels oppressed by a formless, corporate "they...
After the first hurrahs for The Godfather, critical reaction to the movie has snagged on a few key questions. Does it revel in Hollywood gangster melodrama? Does it sentimentalize the Mafia? Does it present the Mob as a metaphor for all business or politics? One of TIME's cinema critics gives his assessment...
...thread together an epic family chronicle, expressing its conflicts with an immediacy and a love for detail of location and character that can only come from the deepest rapport with the subject matter. Comparisons have been made with Gone With the Wind, and snots have sniffed at the melodrama which can't be separated from the tenets of the retold crimes. No matter. There's heart to the work, and it starts to beat when the Don says "a man who can't spend time with his family is less than a whole man." Coppola takes off with a story...
WHEN I was eight years old, seeing Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians kept me awake for a week, listening for that fatal creaking on the stairs. No one will lose any sleep over the current Kirkland House production, but a very pleasant evening of who-done-it melodrama awaits those up for some straight-forward escapism...