The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Reviews

Movie Reviews

• With a film as classically well made as Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, there's no denying its romantic spell

  by Steve Ramos [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• This romantic melodrama set in 1920s Mississippi seems almost like a self-parody of Williams' earlier work

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond proves why some screenplays deserve to remain lost.

  by Alexander Zalben [Filmcritic.com ]

• Despite "Teardrop Diamond's" rough edges, the filmmaker, who has spent much of her career acting on stage and screen, succeeds in transporting us back to that other time

  by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]

• a must-see for admirers of Tennessee Williams

  by Kirk Honeycutt [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a mere anecdote in the great American playwright's canon

  by Bill Weber [Slant Magazine ]

• "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" descends with dismaying speed into clichéd Southern melodrama.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
• Review rate : C Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
• Reviewed by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice ]
• Reviewed by Stephen Holden [NY Times ]

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