Sentences with phrase «cast unflattering»

Talk to Me, a biography of pioneering Washington, D.C. disc jockey Ralph Waldo «Petey» Greene (Don Cheadle), is a frustrating film — superbly acted, heartfelt, entertaining throughout, but so formulaic in its conception that the two astonishing sequences that unshackle themselves from formula cast an unflattering light on the rest.

The ultraconservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia issued an order allowing women to drive, ending a long - standing policy that has cast an unflattering light on the country's treatment of women.

Not exact matches

Mistakes are intensified by the tedious psychodramas of Mourinho's public presence, magnified by the size of the club, and cast in an unflattering light by Manchester City, who may have conceded the same number but seem to have had a lot more fun doing it.

I wasn't surprised by LAUSD's decision — reality shows need drama, and LAUSD no doubt suspected it would be portrayed in an unflattering light, just as many felt the Huntington, West Virginia «lunch ladies» in season one were unfairly cast as villains for merely serving menus dictated by others.

Just weeks after starting a prestigious gig as a host on NBC's «Today» show, Billy Bush found himself cast in a harsh and unflattering light — and facing scattered calls online to resign — after the recording emerged of him exchanging lewd and misogynistic remarks about women with Trump.

Still, Republicans like the unflattering parallel, especially when it casts the governor as an autocrat who favors his friends, bends politics to his will and punishes enemies.

And in June, another former Cuomo ally, Alain E. Kaloyeros, will stand trial in a case that may cast further unflattering light on the governor's administration.

With Louder Than Bombs, Trier proves he is still in touch with unflattering grief and yet raises the pedigree with his first English - language feature by casting Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn and Isabelle Huppert.

No Country for Old Men (2007) Unflattering in every way, Bardem himself once declared the bowl cut he sported as air tank - toting sociopath Anton Chigurh «the worst haircut I've ever had,» noting that the only way Joel and Ethan Coen could repay him for the months he spent having to live with the style (it was indeed his real hair, not a wig) would be to cast him in their next movie.

The hyper - realistic imagery not only ensures every computer - generated effect and model shot is obvious, as well as the casting its performers in an unflattering, cheap television - style light, but exposes the film's artifice.

Casting vanity to the wind, Rockwell affects an ungainly posture and unflattering haircut to play a racist, homophobic, supremely idiotic mama's - boy drunk on his own blunt - force power: If Mildred embodies fairness at its most extreme, Dixon is its opposite, a living, breathing symbol of unacknowledged, unearned privilege.

An absentee father, a former dissident from communist - era Prague, needles his adult daughter for details about her newly commissioned play when he fears it will cast him in an unflattering light.