“Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit.”
“When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves.”
“As the music built to a final denouement a bright city rose behind the dancers and they joyfully went to enter it.”
“None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes.”
“The acting in the film is as predictable as the various denouements.”
“They borrowed their tropes, plots, and denouements from an American cultural tradition that included theories, artworks, and stories that linked nostalgia and extinction.”
