| 41. | That can be stagy, as when a maid is given the duty of imparting the court's final decision.
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| 42. | Another bad habit is the stagy, unrealistic speeches first-time screenwriter Sam Lowry has given some of the characters.
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| 43. | The movie was thought to be too stagy in its own day, but that's the charm for us now.
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| 44. | Kasi Lemmons'script has plenty of nice touches, but her sometimes stagy, sometimes pretentious direction often breaks its spell.
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| 45. | So, too, with movie dialogue, which needs to be every bit as artificial while never seeming at all stagy.
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| 46. | Where " Lost and Delirious " falters is in its increasingly idealized and stagy depiction of young love gone sour.
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| 47. | Mind games are what the characters in this stagy drama play with one another _ and what the movie plays with the audience.
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| 48. | But Still's dialogue is so hopelessly ham-handed and stagy that nothing they shout at each other sounds especially real.
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| 49. | But will Judd ever use this clout to find a role that proves there's a real actress beneath her stagy poses?
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| 50. | The seams of the movie's theatrical origins are glaringly evident in the solemn, stagy rhythms of Whaley's screenplay.
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