Singing Detective’ registers off-key

Oct 24, 2003 8:00 a.m. - Newark Star Ledger

Dissonance is a potent musical device but a tricky compositional principle. Virtuoso work by Robert Downey Jr. and an unrecognizable Mel Gibson (who also produced) can’t keep "The Singing Detective" from degenerating into sheer noise.

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