The 2014 Somerset floods act as metaphorically rich backdrop for a woman returning to her farming family after the death of her brother. (lwlies.com)
Director David Dobkin does a very good job of blending the film's disparate comedic styles, and while Wedding Crashers generally oversells the smarmy loathsomeness of Sack (making sure to paint him as a philandering letch so as not to retain any possible vestige of audience sympathy), the Cleary clan — a nice admixture of Kennedy and Bush lore and speculation — provides a suitably rich backdrop against which John and Jeremy can spin their wheels. (shareddarkness.com)
Furthermore, the Athenian landscape offers an evident layering of ancient, modern and contemporary references that are patchworked together, creating an assymetric but rich backdrop for our daily lives. (stateofconcept.org)