Review of The Singing Detective (2003) by Peter Rainer for New York Magazine (Vulture) — 23 Dec 2014
It’s powerful, all right, and Downey’s performance is lacerating, but missing is any sense of lyricism in Dark’s hallucinatory yearnings. Without that leap of transcendence, this new Singing Detective doesn’t sing.
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This review of The Singing Detective (2003) was written by Peter Rainer and published by New York Magazine (Vulture) on 23 Dec 2014.
The Singing Detective has generally received mixed reviews.
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