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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
THE CRUCIBLE (PG-13) Joltingly powerful. Director Nicholas Hytner has taken Arthur Miller's stern popular classic and made it pulsate with dramatic energy. And what a play it is -- the definition of rock-solid middlebrow excitement. When the teenagers of Salem, Mass., are put on trial for witchcraft, it sets off a chain reaction of accusal, denial, and guilt. The locals want to see the devil, to experience the sensuality and madness driven underground by their society. Hytner works in a combustible style, summoning the rage and recrimination that can sweep through a community like wildfire. It's up to the actors to animate the Puritan cadences of Miller's dialogue, and Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, and Joan Allen bring it off spectacularly. A
Posted Dec 06, 1996
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