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Only true opera diehards will appreciate the backstage psychodrama, a catalog aria of the singer's multiple neuroses.
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Will be of keen interest to fans but plays to the unwashed as cringingly pompous.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Because his self-conscious musings are given so much space, it helps to arrive at the movie already awed by Shicoff's talents so you can overlook his (and this dramatically unfocused film's) flaws.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
A promotional video masquerading as a documentary.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Her heavy-handed montage of war, civil rights demonstrations, revolutions and KKK gatherings, intercut with Shicoff's delivery of the opera's devastating fourth-act aria, is so amateurish it very nearly succeeds in trivializing the power of his performance.
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But compared to great documentaries about the process behind performance-"Last Dance" and "Original Cast Album: Company" spring to mind-Finding Eléazar is too choppy and fussy.
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The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
A bit scattery, but it simmers with Shicoff's intensity in lending his faith and being to the role.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
If Mr. Shicoff ultimately comes across as a short-tempered, egotistical prima donna, the upshot of all the fuss is worth it: his Viennese performance is transcendent.