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Don Aucoin

Don Aucoin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Tom Papa: Home Free (2024) EDIT “Quality-wise, “Home Free” is not at the level of those three earlier shows. But Papa’s got one of the sharpest comic minds around, and watching him work amounts to a primer on the craft of stand-up.” – Boston Globe Nov 15, 2024 Full Review Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024) 100% EDIT “If you doubt that representation matters all that much, watch “Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution.”” – Boston Globe Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? (2022) 83% EDIT “Although Menzel is one of the documentary’s executive producers, “Which Way’' is fairly candid in capturing not just the joy of one of Broadway’s premier belters when she’s onstage but also her anxieties, doubts, and occasional tears when she’s offstage” – Boston Globe Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Cyrano (2021) 85% 2/4 EDIT “With its overly solemn, by-the-numbers approach, “Cyrano’' doesn’t make a strong enough case for another go at the story. The music most certainly doesn’t.” – Boston Globe Feb 24, 2022 Full Review West Side Story (2021) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “There have been countless iterations of this masterwork (it was revived again on Broadway as recently as last year), but Spielberg and Kushner enable us to see it with new eyes.” – Boston Globe Dec 9, 2021 Full Review Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) 88% 3/4 EDIT “With "tick, tick ... BOOM!", Miranda has done [Larson] proud.” – Boston Globe Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Diana: The Musical (2021) 12% 1.5/4 EDIT “All of it is wearyingly familiar, and little of it is rendered with more than Lifetime movie-style cliché.” – Boston Globe Oct 19, 2021 Full Review The Many Saints of Newark (2021) 72% 3/4 EDIT “As a "Goodfellas"-ish crime drama that vividly evokes time and place, "Saints" is rendered with enough bare-knuckled verve, unpredictability, and darkly glinting wit to make it work.” – Boston Globe Oct 7, 2021 Full Review Dear Evan Hansen (2021) 28% 2/4 EDIT “We're more conscious of how facile its story is because the musical numbers - the ballad-heavy score is by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul - don't land the way they did onstage, their wistfulness now registering as listless.” – Boston Globe Oct 3, 2021 Full Review Come From Away (2021) 98% 3/4 EDIT “All drama asks you to suspend disbelief, but "Come From Away" asks you also to suspend cynicism, aiming to move and uplift you. It's not a bad bargain, and "Come From Away" holds up its end.” – Boston Globe Sep 17, 2021 Full Review What the Constitution Means to Me (2020) 97% EDIT “Schreck matches the wit and fire of her writing with a riveting performance that often does not feel like a performance at all, but rather a cri de coeur wrenched up from a deep place where the personal, the historical, and the universal have met...” – Boston Globe Oct 19, 2020 Full Review The King of Staten Island (2020) 76% 3.5/4 EDIT “While Apatow is a Hollywood powerhouse, "The King of Staten Island'' doesn't come across as standard Hollywood product. It registers as a piece of personal filmmaking on the part of both director and star.” – Boston Globe Jun 12, 2020 Full Review
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