It's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess.
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New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.
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VarietyDennis Harvey
VarietyDennis Harvey
Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.
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Village VoiceJessica Winter
Village VoiceJessica Winter
The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.
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New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."