Richard Zoglin

“What seemed cynical in 1975 is now au courant.”

“Aladdin is frisky and fun, another demonstration of Disney professionalism.”

“But this political burlesque, though energetically acted and featuring a grabby rock score by Michael Friedman, is so overwrought and simpleminded that it quickly becomes a trial to sit through, and something of an insult.”

“But what's missing is the movie's emotional core the impassioned delicacy of its portrayal of two people who glimpse all too briefly the romance that their ordinary lives can never permit.”

“Eric Simonson's play is told through the eyes of a Look magazine reporter who spent a week with Lombardi during the 1965 season, providing an excuse for lots of irrelevant talk about editors and deadlines, but almost no useful insights into Lombardi (played, just adequately, by former Wonder Years star Dan Lauria), aside from the fact that he ap...”

“Wicked works because it has something Broadway musicals, so addicted to facetiousness and camp, have largely given up on: a story that adults can take seriously.”

“In the end, the play is too speculative for history, too cerebral for drama. Frayn's postscript to a published edition of the play, describing the scholarly debate over Heisenberg's motives, is oddly more compelling than the play itself.”

“Then again, they wouldn’t be missing a lot.”

“But holy David Merrick — what a mess.”