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stagy

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Although a bit exaggerated and stagy at times, this has the lively storytelling quality children enjoy.
Adapted from Alan Bennett's Tony award-winning play, The History Boys eventually overcomes its stagy feel with Oscar-caliber performances and powerful moments late in the game, but it's going to be a hard sell for its studio, Fox Searchlight.
People of refinement know better and recognize Captain Kirk's total commitment, his vein-popping intensity, his refusal to be cooler than the material, as the acting equivalent of the right stuff--an indefinable quality, not quite stagy, not quite cinematic, at once too big for TV and just right for it.
 
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