Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021) by Richard Roeper for Chicago Sun-Times — 22 Sep 2021
The adaptation is a curiously strange effort, as director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) films the story like an indie drama, with straightforward, realistic, dialogue-driven scenes — and then every 10 minutes or so, a character breaks into song, and it seems much more contrived and jolting than something like La La Land.
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This review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021) was written by Richard Roeper and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 22 Sep 2021.
Dear Evan Hansen has generally received mixed reviews.
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