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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Director Baz Luhrmann fuses the energy of MTV, the oversaturated kitsch ''passion'' of Ken Russell, and the burnt-rubber nihilism of a futuristic action cartoon. The stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, can't exactly fake being classical thespians (they have matching California monotones), but that's okay, since they're both great camera subjects. The movie knows perfectly well it's blaspheming Shakespeare, and that, in a way, is its appeal. Ultimately, though, this high-swank music video is committed to little beyond its own eye candy.
Posted Nov 15, 1996
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