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The dialogue can get clunky and overexplicit, but the story springs to life in theatrical imagery that materializes and dissolves with dreamlike ease.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

But for all its tasteful rectitude and obvious reverence for the movie, Mr. Woodruff’s “Autumn Sonata” exposes the overwrought, overexplicit Freudianism of the material, nearly tipping it into parody at times.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2011

But it doesn't take long to ferret out Shaffer's sometimes overexplicit theme � that old chestnut about the "insane" being more authentically alive than those of us leading ordered, conformist, "normal" lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an overexplicit curtain speech, Stewart says contritely that he has learned the bitter lesson of power.

From Time Magazine Archive