adaptation of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ musical memorable. It’s the “ET” director’s most visually exciting film in a zillion years.Still, it’s not gonna become a classic in the way the 1961 original did.
Where this “Story” occasionally walks into West Side Highway traffic is screenwriter Tony Kushner’s many needless additions to the script.
The “Angels in America” scribe has never met a plot he couldn’t stretch out like a medieval torture victim. Now, young lover Tony is an ex-convict.
Maria’s (Rachel Zegler) parents are dead (clearly to avoid any implication that they’re absent). There’s a gentrification subplot about how the neighborhood is about to be demolished to build Lincoln Center and the streets are.
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