"Yentl" is a handsome movie to look at---the sets, the cities, the costuming. Mandy Patinkin does a fine job but he's the only one of the leads who does. "Yentl" would've been much better if 1) there was no singing; 2) someone other than Barbra Streisand played the lead. Yes, she's an Oscar winner, but she only plays herself in movie after movie. That worked for her first role, "Funny Girl" for which she won an Oscar, but not over and over. She doesn't for a second "pass" as a man in this movie, not even as a boy.
