The Washington Post, February 17th, 1989
Saying that "Little Dorrit, Part 2" is better than "Little Dorrit, Part 1" is like saying a toothache is better than a migraine. This six-hour, two-part adaptation of the Dickens melodrama is not a movie, it's an endurance test. With its plodding pace and Look-Ma-I'm-acting performances, it proves a seat-squirmer from the outset. It's "Masterpiece Theatre" for masochists. And not only do you have to watch it once, you have to watch it twice. Essentially the same story is told from two points of view-that of the moist-palmed Arthur Clennam in Part 1 and of dear, dear Little Dorrit in Part 2. It...
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