The Boston Globe, April 7th, 1995
Early on in the story of Edgar Allan Poe, the latest in PBS' "American Masters" series (tonight at 10 on Channel 2), author Joyce Carol Oates remarks that one of the Boston-born poet's greatest talents was in the "art of leaving things out." That artistry is clearly missing in this mishmash of documentary and docudrama that attempts to capture one of America's most enigmatic artists. Instead of sticking with the biographical facts and informed commentary from biographers, literary critics and historians, the filmmakers mix serious scholarship with performers in ineffective tableaux to illustra...
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