It's the only review of this film that manages to tell me (albeit subjectively, understood) exactly what went wrong, and why and how. I now want to do some archival reading of her other critiques. I learned more from her about pop cultural influences on musicals than anywhere else of late. And for the record: I'm much more generous toward Benj Pasek and Justin Paul than she is. But she makes a compelling point about the generic blandness in the prosaic lyrics.
