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THIS 'PHANTOM' NEEDS MORE PAIN WITH ITS FEVERED PITCH.(U)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20041221
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic

FANS OF flower-arranging and candlelight will have a great time at the long-awaited film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ``Phantom of the Opera.''

The stage show's many devotees undoubtedly will have mixed reactions to a movie, opening Wednesday, that fails to figure out how to make the show-stopping chandelier drop a 10th as breathtakingly on screen as it does in the theater.

And those of us who have always thought that Gaston Leroux's Grand Guignol source novel was better material for horror movies than nonsensical ...

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