The Women

Catfights and Class Struggles, but Not at Katz’s Deli

“What is this, some 1930s movie?” asks a character in “The Women.” If only! Of course, the line pays winking homage to a specific '30s movie, directed by George Cukor and based on a notorious play by Clare Boothe Luce, that starred Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford and was also called “The Women.”
Further comparison would only serve to demean that sleek and waspish artifact of a bygone era, and also to humiliate the remake, a witless, straining mess written and directed by Diane English, the creator of “Murphy Brown. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4798 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 12 Settembre 2008