Review of The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) by Jack Mathews for New York Daily News — 20 Aug 2004
Amounts to a complete misreading of Wilde, who used the conventions of artifice to lampoon artificiality. Parker totally misses the point by tacking on such cinematic curlicues -- apparently, in his eagerness to seem movie-friendly, he's too hung up on the importance of not being earnest.
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This review of The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) was written by Jack Mathews and published by New York Daily News on 20 Aug 2004.
The Importance of Being Earnest has generally received positive reviews.
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