Sentences with phrase «anaemic film»

The biopic is — with rare but important exceptions — a relatively anaemic film genre, and something here about the reduction of Chubbuck's story to its regimented codes and conventions renders it as little more than a classy TV movie.

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Bilge Ebiri of The Village Voice believes the «main relationship between Jacques and Arthur feels curiously inert,» and The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw finds «something disconcertingly passionless and anaemic» in the film.

A few of Alfredson's comments resonate nonetheless, in the case of his observation that Control signs his name in green ink per John le Carré's description because it's an homage frankly diluted / defeated by the film's anaemic colour palette.

Save for his two Hellboy movies (among the most irreverent and entertaining comic book films of the modern era), his more straightforward genre fare — Mimic, Pacific Rim, the ripe gothic melodrama of Crimson Peak — are pretty anaemic once you get past the beautiful production design.

Subverting the very elements in which the narrative is structured upon and supplanting it with an anaemic love story brings a certain morality to the film that is absent in the novel and it is doubtful that Taylor Johnson's film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey will satisfy even its most ardent fans.

Even at an anaemic eighty - five minutes, the film drags somehow, limping across the finish line with an ass rimshot that isn't funny at the beginning of the picture with Hank Azaria and hasn't gotten any funnier by the end of it with Ben Stiller.

This show may not offer any big new revelations about the nature of the circle, but it brings together a magnificent, occasionally mad cornucopia of rounded works, from the London Underground sign from Oval station to magical pieces of Zen Buddhist calligraphy, created during a single exhalation of breath; from Marcel Duchamp's Anaemic Cinema, a whirling «psychedelic» animated film from 1925, to Chicago artist Theaster Gates's A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, in which a stuffed goat on a tricycle, originally used in Masonic ceremonies, runs noisily round a circular railway track.