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It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-year-old Claire Danes.

— Stephanie Zacharek Review of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)

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This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

Review of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.

Review of 300 (2007)

This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.

While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.

Review of 9 Songs (2005)

Batman Begins leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.

Review of Batman Begins (2005)

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