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The show can at times feel like a tone poem, at others a family drama.
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Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
The best conductors of Strauss’s tone poems revel in the quieter stuff, rather than seeming to just wait impatiently for the next blaring climax.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Garland’s properly alarming and exquisitely designed film is as close as American mainstream cinema is likely to get to an experimental tone poem.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
The film is more elegiac tone poem than structured narrative, echoing Maria's dreamlike trance induced by her abuse of medication and nostalgia for her glory days.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
The best conductors of Strauss’s tone poems revel in the quieter stuff, rather than seeming to just wait impatiently for the next blaring climax.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Garland’s properly alarming and exquisitely designed film is as close as American mainstream cinema is likely to get to an experimental tone poem.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
The film is more elegiac tone poem than structured narrative, echoing Maria's dreamlike trance induced by her abuse of medication and nostalgia for her glory days.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Tone poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tone%20poem. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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