Review of Romeo + Juliet (1996) by Janet Maslin for The New York Times — 30 Nov 2015
Mr. Luhrmann's frenetic hodgepodge actually amounts to a witty and sometimes successful experiment, an attempt to reinvent "Romeo and Juliet" in the hyperkinetic vocabulary of post-modern kitsch.
This is headache Shakespeare, but there's method to its madness.
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This review of Romeo + Juliet (1996) was written by Janet Maslin and published by The New York Times on 30 Nov 2015.
Romeo + Juliet has generally received positive reviews.
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