Sentences with phrase «by leaden»

Garland is clearly interested in picking apart the metaphysical quandaries that come from artificial intelligence, though is consistently weighed down by a leaden, tricksy plot which never really convinces.

Even the glitteriest of gold - standard clinical trials, for instance, are often undone by a leaden follow - up study that has the nerve to arrive at a different result.

Not exact matches

I rather like it when those who enter office, whether elected or appointed, announce themselves in advance by a) a long and arduous record, b) predictably constrained staff who will be paid by OUR tax dollars to pursue their pet projects, thus opening themselves up to stark exposure on countless occasions yet to unfold, and c) who must thus become leaden weights on the presumed «We'll get this done» crippled legs of those who make bold to hire them.

But as is often the case in Ron Howard's movies, the morals, the messages, and the barely - hidden subtext are beaten home with a leaden hammer, plus the screenplay (by Space Cowboys writer Ken Kaufman) leaves little to no room for subtlety or nuance.

Leaden with implausibility (You'll wonder throughout how Nick prove his innocence by subversively trying to steal the diamond from the man who framed him), its overreaching script by Pablo Fenjves (The Affair, The Devil's Child), Man on a Ledge traverses through clichés and hard - to - swallow machinations in order to keep the audience on its toes.

In addition to its overly familiar plot, Homefront runs its course in some predictable ways, and the leaden, by - the - numbers events of the film are too plodding for this relatively talented and appealing cast to overcome.

Although charismatic and likable, they are obviously not trained actors, and are overmatched by Eastwood's (working from Dorothy Blyskal's script adapted from a book co-written by Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler) leaden storytelling approach.

Masters of the Universe is, by and large, a weak fantasy / action film, full of leaden plotting, bad acting, and hokey characterizations that will most likely please no one but the most forgiving fans of the He - Man mythos.

In the earlier film, much of the rhetoric was overwrought, the telling of the (truly important) tale of slavery and its consequences leaden by histrionic filmmaking and interminable scenes of shouting and prosthelytizing.

The unvarying sitcom pacing of the dialogue is relieved only by the equally unvarying music - video pacing of the leaden sight gags.

In a way, the film plays like a greatest - hits collection of the worst films so far of Summer 2017, from an appearance by the Knights of the Round Table that calls to mind «King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,» the leaden comedy and leering courtship of «Baywatch» and the general «Why are we in England again?»

Directed by Sarah Gavron as a tumultuous anti-heritage epic (and shot by Eduard Grau in panoramic «Scope format), Suffragette traces the politicisation of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a young wife and mother of leaden - hued Bethnal Green.

The story development is poor, with a leaden, nonsensical script by Hans Rodionoff, whose previous efforts include crap like The Skulls II and The Hollow.

At least that's the message imparted by «Greencard Warriors,» a well - meaning but leaden and predictable inner - city drama about the hardscrabble lives of illegal immigrants trying to survive the violent streets of Central Los Angeles.

by Walter Chaw Leaden with mock gravitas and embarrassing aspirations to the Shakespearean, Michael Caton - Jones's aggressively uninteresting City by the Sea is a purported true story (based on an article by Michael McAlary) that proves to be just another by - the - numbers police procedural crunched with an abortive middle - age romance and a stultifying Oedipal complication.

Wonderstruck seems lost by comparison, spending much of its time laboriously explaining a story that ends up feeling leaden.

Truth is, the expectations created by those numbers are like leaden wellies around the ankles of this car.

Push through with a more leaden foot and the Tahoe 4x4 moves out smartly, as evidenced by our 7.3 - second 0 - 60 run at the test track (6.9 seconds with a foot of rollout as on a drag strip).

The Motorola Xoom, at 1.6 pounds and with a thickness of 0.5 inch, is leaden by comparison.

London Diary has been on hiatus for the summer, having spent July nominally working on a photographic project in Paris and returning to its spiritual home for an art world August so leaden you could've caught painter's colic just by walking past a gallery.

In a reverse Midas - effect, McEwen has answered to the shimmering claims of Minimalist art by creating contemporary work that is freighted with the leaden melancholy of modern history.

For Martin, the graffiti artists demonstrated that public spaces were not the preserve of monumental and leaden sculptures by Minimalists such as Richard Serra (1939) but could also be animated by light and dynamic paintings that did not require cranes or other equipment for their installation.

The renewed interest in advertising's leaden foot by the Pictures Generation stemmed from the idea that our desire and activities were being guided by the myriad images, or pictures, among which we lived.

By Richard Ingham (AFP)-- 3 hours ago PARIS — A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change.