Beauty and the Beast is wonderfully out of step with the times
by Stephanie Zacharek
Mar 18, 2017
2 minutes
THE KEY TO BILL CONDON’S WONDROUS live-action musical Beauty and the Beast is that it’s not a movie of its time. It’s not even a movie of 1991, the year Disney released the animated film that provides its framework. In its go-for-broke exuberance and wedding-cake lavishness, this new Beauty most resembles the musicals of the mid- to late-1960s, like Carol
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