Jack Donohue

The only time the film really stops moving is during Alex’s nightclub performance of the signature song from Walt Disney’s 1961 live-action musical Babes in Toyland—a potentially mawkish, extreme close-up set-piece (in the mold of Carey Mulligan in Shame) leavened by Sin-Dee’s half-rapt, half-impatient viewing from a corner booth.