Film review: A New York Winter’s Tale

Love never dies. Nor do stories of good versus evil, screenwriters with a burning desire to sit in the director’s chair or actors with a dubious ear for Oirish accents.
Undated Film Still Handout from A New York Winter's Tale. Pictured: Jennifer Connelly. See PA Feature FILM Film Reviews. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Warner Bros. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature FILM Film Reviews.Undated Film Still Handout from A New York Winter's Tale. Pictured: Jennifer Connelly. See PA Feature FILM Film Reviews. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Warner Bros. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature FILM Film Reviews.
Undated Film Still Handout from A New York Winter's Tale. Pictured: Jennifer Connelly. See PA Feature FILM Film Reviews. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Warner Bros. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature FILM Film Reviews.

We’re treated to all three plus Will Smith as Lucifer and a white horse with wings in fantastical romance, A New York Winter’s Tale.

Akiva Goldman’s film is based on the novel Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin but is re-titled for the UK, presumably to avoid confusion with Shakespeare’s 17th century problem play.

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In truth, no one is likely to confuse the Bard’s impeccable verse with Goldsman’s shambolic script, which includes such clanging dreck as “Nothing seems to break [the human] capacity for hope – they pass it back and forth like flu at a school fair.”

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