Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 23 Sep 2021
The film suffers from a different condition, an emotional elephantiasis that is inexorable and ultimately terminal. What was by all accounts a modestly scaled production in all of its live-theater iterations has become a ponderous movie that turns earnest into maudlin, lyrical into lugubrious.
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This review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 23 Sep 2021.
Dear Evan Hansen has generally received mixed reviews.
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