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Streisand is stunning, but the film is a trial, particularly when the music disappears somewhere around the 90-minute mark and all that's left is leaden melodrama.
This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
Barbra Streisand in her Hollywood debut makes a marked impact.
It is impossible to praise Miss Streisand too highly; hard to find much to praise about the rest of the film.
The fun is there whenever Streisand is, and that could be reason enough for reacquainting yourself with Funny Girl.
Remains Barbra Streisand's greatest moment on the big screen.
A fine movie musical and a nice reminder of the time when Streisand was a talent rather than a 'phenomenon'.
Few film debuts in the 1960s were more auspicious than that of Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.
I wish William Wyler's direction was more inventive and humurous (it's his first musical), but Streisand gives a meteoric performance, as Fanny Frice and as herself, showing a tremendous charismatic presence that goes beyond physical looks and acting.
[Streisand gives] a natural, unforced performance, easily one of the three or four best Best Actresses in Oscar history.
One of the all-time great film musicals with dazzling Streisand.
You will have made your mind up about Babs one way or the other, but for the rare uninitiated, this is a fine introduction to her talents.
Well worth watching, even if most later Streisand movies aren't.
Given how she grew into perhaps the most annoyingly egocentric entertainer in all the world, it's difficult to imagine that Barbra Streisand was once an ingenue.
Barbra Streisand gives one of the musical genre's most sublime performances--unfortunately in a stodgy, badly paced, overly produced movie that don't deserve her.
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