| 1. | But on film, the effect is entirely too stagey.
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| 2. | He called it " stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order ".
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| 3. | Very stagey and claustrophobic, this verbose, pedantic film is no fun.
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| 4. | Alternately moving, alternately stagey, it stars Nathan Lane and Michael Jeter.
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| 5. | Static, stagey and rather self-conscious, they just stand around.
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| 6. | It is stagey and hokey, as is " Brother ."
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| 7. | But their prissy grandstanding extends to personal scenes meriting far less stagey behavior.
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| 8. | But all of this requires surviving Mamet's more pedantic and stagey notions.
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| 9. | The mood is stagey and cinematic, although no obvious story line is suggested.
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| 10. | And the dialogue is of a self-conscious variety both stagey and unintentionally funny.
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