He also praised the wedding, describing it as "beautifully staged", and Stewart's performance.
Here's an old favourite of mine, so beautifully staged (and it does look like theatre).
Rob Nelson of Variety described the film as "a beautifully staged marvel that confidently reasserts Kitano's considerable cinematic gifts."
Critical reception was highly positive, with critics describing it as "organic, essential, beautifully staged and refreshingly realistic."
"Dogfight" ends with a beautifully staged and acted sequence that, if the rest of the movie were better, would be irresistible.
The wedding of Othello and Desdemona, beautifully staged with two children also acting as their symbolic surrogates, is celebrated in Act I by a ball and a carol, or circle dance.
They weren't missed, however, in John Rando's beautifully staged presentation that played five performances at City Center recently to open the new season for Encores.
Each prize step is part of a flowing, beautifully staged sequence of movement.
"The Skin I'm In," a beautifully staged sampler program of excerpts from old works and several complete new small pieces, offered easy passage into the wild imagination of an exceptional, unclassifiable artist.
It was a beautifully staged drama.