Dissenting reviewers considered "Myst"s acting melodramatic and overwrought. However Seymour wrote that the film was overly melodramatic and ludicrous to absorb. In contrast, others see "Sailor Moon" as campy and melodramatic. It received lackluster reviews from critics, who deemed it melodramatic, unoriginal, and sexist. It received poor reviews from critics, who deemed it melodramatic, unoriginal, and sexist. He called it "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order". American critics panned the film, considering it melodramatic and heavyhanded. From there, DeMille's style developed into marital comedies with outrageously melodramatic plots. Bose chose to be realistic and to avoid melodramatic and manipulative set-ups to express emotions. It's a thrill to hear my song played during melodramatic moments in soaps. Patrick Brantlinger regards it as melodramatic and wildly inaccurate. Sam Lansky from "Idolator" called the cover "haunting and melodramatic". She faced criticism from the literary elite for her allegedly melodramatic writing. All German telenovelas are formatted as melodramatic love stories. The movie is told in melodramatic telenovela form and features English-language subtitles.