Very enjoyable. It could have been a short film, yet somehow the full runtime still works.
Very enjoyable. It could have been a short film, yet somehow the full runtime still works.
Overlong badly-directed TV movie (you can see the bits where it would break into episodes) overladen with repeated exposition (who is Rotta’s father? Perhaps you could have told me a third time) and that commits the worst of all Star Wars sins, in that it is frequently dull.
If you’re going to make a biopic of one of the great composers of the 20th century, you shouldn’t make it largely about who he slept with. But if you’re going to do that, you shouldn’t completely leave out his advocacy for people with HIV/Aids and his mentoring of Marin Alsop. Unfortunately, this film, which seems to be preoccupied with shrinking its subject at every turn, commits both these sins and more besides.
What led Leonard Bernstein to want to…
A frustrating misfire. The decision to make the murderers the centre of the film robs it of any tension or suspense: we find out what is going on essentially in the opening 15 minutes and are then subjected to the rest of the characters finding out very, very, very, veeerrry slowly.
The decision to make DiCaprio’s character the protagonist is a mistake twice over. Once, as discussed, because it means we in the audience know exactly what is going on…