Garish and goopy—a kind of West Side Story reworked into its original form.
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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
This has elegance, vigour and charm.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The costumes and everything else in the film--the photography, the music, above all Shakespeare's language--is so voluptuous, so sensuous.