Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Mary Poppins Returns


Rob Marshall's Mary Poppins Returns has two ace troupers in Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, but the narrative is cloying, often dull, the musical numbers flat and unengaging despite hawking the message our troubles disappear when we take a risk and unharness our imaginations.

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Appropriate

  I read Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' award-winning play Appropriate some months back and have let its searing story of race, retribution, fa...