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The Variety reviewer noted :" His debut foray into his own spotlight comes with ' Songs for a New World ,' a musical revue that shows Brown to be a capable songwriter of the Alan Menken school: commercial show-tune pop with palatable sentiment and easy-to-take melody .... ' Songs for a New World ' seems to contain more cabaret convention and pianobar posing than any one revue should have to withstand.
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Noted reviewer Graham Greene was effusive that this was Capra's finest film to date, describing Capra's treatment as " a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality ..." Variety noted " a sometimes too thin structure the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert (...) into fairly sturdy substance.
Variety magazine's reviewer wrote: " Considerable excitement is whipped up in this suspense drama, and fans who go for tight action will find it entirely satisfactory.
The film was critically well-received ; the Variety reviewer wrote " Hawke ... gives a haunting performance.
The Variety reviewer wrote: " While Ethan Hawke uses the space confidently, he allows his talented cast to push mannered material further into self-consciousness.
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Another reviewer in Variety noted of a 1995 production starring Tony Randall as Sir Peter Teazle that Sheridan's play was " such a superbly crafted laugh machine, and so timeless in delivering delectable comeuppance to a viper's nest of idle-rich gossipmongers, that you'd practically have to club it to death to stifle its amazing pleasures "-before claiming that this is precisely what the production being reviewed had done.
" Variety reviewer Brian Lowry compared the film to an extended music video, praising the soundtrack and visuals, but panning the story.
" Variety Magazine reviewer Jeremy Gerard compared the show to Twin Peaks and was overall positive to the series, but said " I just wish it were a little more fun, that I didn't have this nagging feeling that it wants to hurt me the next time I come around.
Variety. com reviewer David Rooney writes that the film " provides stimulating evidence of how thoroughly news can be skewed, political agendas served and a climate of fear created by a news net selling itself as an objective information service.
Variety film reviewer Robert Koehler described the film as " a broadside ," but noted that " it's vastly superior in content and style to most of the recent anti-Moore docus.
Variety reviewer Tony Scott criticized that " superficial characters wander through their roles without stirring a modicum of conviction ".
The staff reviewer for the entertainment magazine Variety highlighted – as other reviewers did as well – the cinematography of Bruno Nuytten ( an effort that won Nuytten a BAFTA award and a César nomination ).
and the reviewer in Variety writing: The film has plenty of corn, is sometimes too slow, repetitious and badly edited ... Yet has immense charm, and the photography and superb scenery make it a good travelog ad for the Great Barrier Reef.
The Variety reviewer wrote: " ' Skyscraper ' at first appears to be a zany romantic comedy but soon head down a dark avenue of memory and fantasy.
Variety reviewer Scott Foundas described the film as " goofy fantasy hokum " with a message, one scene as " subpar ", and some monologues as " distinctly uncinematic ", but other scenes as " surprisingly enjoyable.
Variety reviewer Todd Everett wrote " the hyperdrive visual sense for which Bakshi's animated features have been noted.
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Todd McCarthy in Variety noted that Dunst was " just right " for the family.
" It's the second strong comedy in a row for Spencer Tracy, doing the title role, and he socks it ", Variety noted.
Todd McCarthy of Variety noted that " Richard role is too much the American Everyman and not enough of a well-defined individual to entirely capture one's interest and imagination, and DiCaprio, while perfectly watchable, does not endow him with the quirks or distinguishing marks to make this man from nowhere a dimensional character.
In reviewing the film's sequel twenty-three years later, Variety noted that though the original film was " Intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas ' hugely charismatic ( and Oscar-winning ) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example.
Even at the time of its release, Variety noted that the " story bespeaks authority in detail, obviously explained by the fact that Capt.
The review in Variety noted that the film " has warmth, humor, a rich dose of romance and almost incredible pictorial appeal.
Commenting on her performance, Variety noted, " Zeta-Jones is bewitchingly lovely as the center of everyone's attention, and she throws herself into the often physical demands of her role with impressive grace.
Laura Fries of Variety, the Hollywood trade paper, noted in her review of Jett Jackson: The Movie that " Young serves as an appealing role model, much like Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- someone who can fulfill young, action craving audiences without the gratuitous violence.
In the same year as the Variety article, a noted screenwriter stated that " the Hays moral code is not even a joke any more ; it's just a memory.
Variety noted " a decided tendency towards a broader, more casual approach " in the enforcement of the Code.
Variety noted, " Curtis Bernhardt's direction handles the drama surely, if at times a bit measured, and never strives for dramatic tricks beyond the level of the simple, warm story being told.
Variety noted that it was the first time in years that the Legion had condemned a major American film which had received the approval of the Code.
" Todd McCarthy of Variety called Farrell " first rate " and noted that he worked well as an ensemble actor " graciously allowing star Alison Barry to steal every scene she's in.
The review in Variety noted the performances of the lead actors: " Anouk Aimee has a mature beauty and an ability to project an inner quality that helps stave off the obvious banality of her character, and this goes too for the perceptive Jean-Louis Trintignant as the man.
She also influenced Miami-based radio and television host-cum-singer Peppy Fields, sister of noted pianist Irving Fields, who was called the Sophie Tucker of Miami by Variety and Billboard magazines.
The Times wrote of " a scathingly brilliant and inventive performance " while Variety noted that the actor " adds comic finesse to his apparently ceaseless repertoire ".
Variety noted that his " typically scrupulous channeling of Clough gets the tics and mannerisms right, but also carves a moving portrait of a braggart suddenly out of his depth ".
Variety said he hit " all the right notes in a star-powered performance that will amuse, if not amaze, anyone who only knows the actor as Tony Blair or David Frost " while Richard Corliss of Time noted that he " tries bravely to keep a straight face "
While the New York Times declined to review the film, Variety was lukewarn, faulting mainly the script, but noted the film would likely be a box-office hit based upon its star names, songs, and Technicolor, Techniscope qualities.
Nevertheless the team obtained funding from the Department of Health and the Variety Club of Great Britain, both of whom donated £ 25, 000, and Ian Skipper OBE, ( a noted philanthropist who had already helped Rantzen set up a special fund in memory of Ben Hardwick ), agreed to underwrite the cost of running the helpline for the first year.
Club gave a positive review, but noted that it " probably won't make anyone forget Dragons Forever, Wheels On Meals, Project A, or any number of other excellent Chan films " Some reviews critiqued the special effects, such as in Variety which noted " the camera trickery is glaringly cheesy in some shots, greatly undercutting the illusion of twin brothers in the same frame.
Both the original tracks and the film arrangements cover a variety of musical styles, including orchestral, choral, classical piano, and rock music ; Variety noted that the styles vary between " sparse piano noodlings, pop metal thrashings and cloying power ballads.
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Kay Weissberg in Variety was very positive :" Synthesizing Hou Hsiao-hsien's ambivalent relationship with time and memory, Three Times forms a handy connecting arc between the Taiwanese helmer's earlier work and the increasingly fragmentary direction of his recent films.
However, in Variety Magazine, Robert Koehler wrote a generally negative review of the film :" Resembling a story session where many ideas are brainstormed and few stick, The Myth messily reps Jackie Chan in epic mode as a contempo archaeologist drawn into a plot to plunder the treasure of the Qin Dynasty's first emperor.
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