Review: New ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ tries hard but falls a little flat

Bill Condon’s entertaining enough melodramatic musical fails to accomplish what it most needs to do: move us in tremendous ways.

That’s a boulder-sized problem given how this oft-told tale of a relationship between a romantic gay man in love with movies and an idealistic political rebel tenderly bond in a dank prison cell has consistently moved generations for decades.

We should be a blubbering mess by its end. Just doesn’t happen here.

As some know, “Kiss” originated as a novel...