Rotten
My own reaction to the current version fashioned by Mr. Schumacher is one of pure stupefaction.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
The Phantom of the Opera
Let the fantasy begin.
2004 · 2h 21m · PG-13
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Joel Schumacher
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Director and cast
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32%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
Takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera combines fingernails-on- blackboard audio agony with bamboo- under- fingernails physical torture.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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