overstuffed

It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

And just like those cases, such an overstuffed film would not work without the right star to reduce the cinematic clutter.

There was also frustration in the country over what was seen as struggles to deliver on big promises - an agenda that was "overfilled, overstuffed", said Mr Wells - and his handling of files like immigration.

And yet, Markle’s show isn’t just another entry into an overstuffed genre.

“Emilia Pérez” can be exasperating at times, overstuffed and self-consciously theatrical.