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Love's Labour's Lost is flawed, but Kenneth Branagh remains our greatest living interpreter of Shakespeare.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Even though Love's Labour's Lost is, in showbiz terms, a turkey stuffed with chestnuts, you wouldn't trade it for a pot of gold.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
It's all very colorful, but the movie's diverse elements clash as often as they cooperate.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The leaden bits do bring the proceedings to a screeching halt too many times, but the costumes are breathtaking, and the details (like color-coordinated martinis) are dazzling.
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Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
Taken as a whole, the movie seems to be searching for a harmony it never really achieves.
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Branagh and Love's Labour's Lost all but will themselves into liftoff. They achieve it, and in doing so, they somehow make it right to our pleasure centers with their generous embrace of stardust and pizazz.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Misguided version of one of the Bard's best comedies.
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As if to prove that light romantic comedy can be just as difficult to stage as Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh fails at both, simultaneously.
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Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan
An atrocity exhibition from start to finish.
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Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
The effect is weird but it, actually, kind of works, illuminating both Shakespeare and the artifice of musicals.