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www.movieline.com - : Warren Beatty has been a quintessential Movie Star for so long it's easy to forget how quickly he got there--with his first movie, 1961's Splendor in the Grass--and how genuine a presence he was from the start. Nabbed by Hollywood after causing a stir in William Inge's Broadway bomb A Loss of Roses, Beatty passed on the opportunities to debut on-screen in West Side Story or Parrish, and decided to do Inge again with director Elia Kazan. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : You only get one chance to see the words ''and introducing Warren Beatty,'' and that's in Splendor in the Grass, Elia Kazan's sprawling love story about tortured teens (Natalie Wood and Beatty) who drift together and apart and together and apart through the 1920s and 1930s. This flip-side of Rebel Without a Cause is really Wood's movie altogether, though a really down and droll last act weakens her emotional tour de force in the first half substantially. Watchable but not great. more...
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3/5
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efilmcritic.com - : As very much there is a difference from the teen-troubles and angst of today versus that of the ''olden days,'' when it all boils down to love, there are still strikingly many similarities. Splendor is nicely paced, with the lead roles being filled by Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood. Both of our protagonists are not only well-written, but very strongly acted; Beatty, not as stupefying an actor as he has become (not in choice of roles, but in his sheer ditziness as an adult person), is composed and aptly pensive, while Wood, by no doubt a great beauty, gracefully inhibits her metamorphosis and breakdown. more...
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4/5
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