premise: Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, debuting as a Broadway actor opposite Marisa Tomei, should be humiliated by his performance (Vincent Canby, the New York Times ). His faults are said to range from the small (he can't render accents) to the large (he exhibits the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce, says the New York Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole).
hypothesis: All of the reviews Quentin Tarantino got were very positive.