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THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS THEATRE i I iruoiis Tigermilk 8 (Belle Sebastian, Jeepster) The Standard "can't fault it, but won't listen to" the Scottish band's belatedly released I debut album Select 9 Daily Telegraph 7 Nude with Violin (Royal Exchange, Manchester I Noel Coward's little-performed satire on modem I art is "as predictable as an ofd washing line" to the Times, but "a real find" Eyes Wide (Din Stanley Kub- rick) Kubrick's controversial final film opens In the US today. Husband-and- i wife team Nicole I Kidman and Tom Cruise "are open I and touching" vVewsweefr)as a eoupfe exploring the darker sides of their sexuality. But the Guardian found that "there Bis nothing underneath" Evening St'd 8.S Guardian 2 Vanety 8 I Newsweek 8 Times Average 1 10 Things Hate About You Tango (Din Carlos Saurstj f2jTtils Oscar-nominated tribute to the Latin American i 7r dance Is ''Just a male fantasy" in the MaPe view Dal Mai i Tblal qim 3 Indepon Sunday 5 Heat 3 Irish Times 5 Times 6 Evening Standard Average C8 to the Daily I I Telegraph i Guardian Independent I Daily Telegraph I Times Daily Mail Average i The Maids 1 (Young Wc, I London) "The evening crawls," I pronounced the 9 Observer on Martin Crimp's I new translation of Genet's play about two murd- erous sisters Spectator 2 mm Inftanendent Herald I Observer Sunday Times 5 I Daily Mail 8 Financial Times 2 Average I Lysistrata (BAC, London) a Cermalne Greer's version of Aristophanes' sex-war comedy natured, slapdash according to Time Out I Indepon Sunday 8 Telegraph 7 Observer 7 Times; -Guardian I Time Out 6 Evening Standard; 8. I Heiou -tar 1 Heat 8 1 Evening Standard 1 NME 8 Guardian 6 Average I There's A I Poison finin' (TV Goin' On I Bumu Plas) The New I York rap artists' "corrosive 7th i album" (T'graph) 1 is "a tremendous dance said the Times 8 NME 4 Time Out 6 Independent 5 Guardian 6 Daily Mall 6 Daily Telegraph 9 Average JBOP jj Hanry Potter (J Rowling, Blaomsbury) The best-selling B' magician (see opposite page) Is obsessing the critics as much as the A i The Mall on Sun- day was "tempted 'to award It 500 ouaroian a' i.Dally Telegraph 10; MaliMSuriday' 10 Time Average I July 16 The Editor 17 8 "Smart, tunny, and pretty agreeable? Scotland on S'day) was the general consensus on this teen update of Tfte Taming of. the Shrew 1DSIG Celine Dion (Sheffield Stadium) 'The Canadian diva and "compui- Islveiy slushy monogamanlac" moved across I the stage "as If she has been programmed by a computer" (Observer).

Her fans couldn't get enough indep on nku. Indep on Sunday 3 B' Guardian Times a i I HHPS- Mirror' IVIIIIUI Average 10 4 Saotlandon Dally Telegraph 8 Observers Rnanclal Times 8 Birmingham Post 6'" Big Issue 5 Average i IDAHCE I The BoEshoi Ballet JJ (London Coliseum) 1 Clothed in Glvenchy and 'sporting an 18- year-old Giselle, 8 the beleaguered Russian troupe's 1 return to London i has been "hard to fault" said the Financial Times Guardian 5 Indep on Sunday Sunday Telegraph 7. I Financial Times 8 Times 8 Evening Standard 7. Average I.