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Positive:
13
Mixed:
1
Negative:
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Critic Reviews
May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016
Season 1 Review:
There’s nothing immediately grabby about this film, beyond the promise of watching two of the best actors of the past half-century dance gracefully around each other for the better part of two hours. But sometimes that’s enough--especially when neither man misses a step.
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The Dresser may not be for everyone. It's intimate--in the sense of being both small and intensely personal; it taps into a niche (these are not movie stars); it's all about the power of Shakespeare; it reads, despite the flourishes that Eyre makes as a director to keep it dimensional, as a play shot as a TV movie; and its pacing is odd, but enjoyable.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 20, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Unavoidably stagey in director's Richard Eyre's intimate adaptation, this tour de force is an ode to the actor's art and the sacrifice it entails. [23 May-3 Jun 2016, p.15]
May 27, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Instead of expanding it, in the stage-to-screen tradition, screenwriter-director Richard Eyre (“The Hollow Crown”) chooses to close it in, setting it entirely in the theater and reverting, he says, to the original Ronald Harwood play. That makes The Dresser both claustrophobic and sometimes numbingly talky, especially given the fast pace of the chatter and the range of accents. This can all be a struggle for American viewers, but persist and the result should prove worth it.
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May 31, 2016
Season 1 Review:
To watch them [McKellan and Hopkins] share in their characters' history and intimacy, or intermittently dig underneath each other's skin through those very means, renders The Dresser an effective portrait of the pitfalls and pleasures of a working relationship, but it's a missed opportunity for a more full-bodied look at the life of a theater, and the toils and passion of all those involved.
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