Sentences with phrase «by journeyman director»

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Director Francis Lawrence is an experienced journeyman with no particular flair for the action sequences, which are spaced by screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong so that they occasionally break up the talk, talk, talk.

THE BLU - RAY DISC - REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Bill Chambers It wasn't until 100 minutes into director Sam Mendes's «common tree» with screenwriter Justin Haythe that I figured out why Haythe's voice was driving me batshit: he sounds exactly like Canadian journeyman Don McKellar.

Unfortunately, 8MM is by the numbers, a snuff - movie fable that's shot with the comforting sensibilities of a journeyman director.

Visually astute journeyman director Gordon Douglas brought some welcome fluency to this rethink of the 1938 «Four Daughters,» itself adapted from a story by Fannie Hurst of «Hope For The Best, Expect The Worst» fame.