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This `Opera' is a crashing bore.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20041222
Author:Verniere, James

Byline: JAMES VERNIERE

"The Phantom of the Opera."

Rated PG-13. At the AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.

Two stars (out of four)

What is it about director Joel Schumacher and masked men?

First Schumacher - the director of such films as "The Lost Boys," "The Client," "Falling Down" and "Batman Forever" - reputedly drove the lucrative "Batman" franchise into the ground. (Warner Bros., however, is going to revive it next year.)

Now he is turning Gaston Leroux's immortal boogeyman, the Phantom of the Opera, into the King of Kitsch - ...

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