Sentences with phrase «deserves credit for»

Director Story deserves credit for reassembling the principal cast members, thereby easily maintaining the ensemble's continuity and chemistry.

While «Parks and Recreation» scribe Katie Dippold, who made her feature film directorial writing debut with «The Heat,» deserves credit for creating two fearless and liberating female lead protagonists, there are several stereotypes the movie regularly used to elicit laughs.

Director Peyton Reed — who replaced «Shaun of the Dead» director Edgar Wright just weeks before shooting began — deserves credit for jumping aboard a speeding train, but his inoffensive finished product proves that Marvel is more interested in protecting the house style than making great movies.

Jones also deserves credit for a solid supporting performance that begins in giddy youth and progresses through mature responsibility, caregiver frustration and romantic heartbreak.

In fact, while «SNL» veteran Paula Pell deserves credit for writing such a funny script, the movie succeeds largely due to Fey and Poehler's ability to play off one another.

Once again, Kristen Wiig deserves credit for using her Saturday Night Live success to make strange, dark comedies.

Jolie deserves credit for certain directorial choices that distinguish Unbroken from other Hollywood biopics.

McDonald deserves credit for striving to branch out into a new area of writing, but Judy is underdeveloped, especially given the large amount of source material she's based on.

Summarized like that, the set - up does seem overstuffed, but Colangelo deserves credit for tamping down the potential for melodrama, getting restrained performances from her whole cast, and largely keeping everything clear and fluid.

Operating on what amounts to a shoestring, director James McTeigue deserves some credit for milking a premise the encompasses few characters and even less real estate for not - quite 90 minutes.

The film also deserves credit for giving us a young male protagonist who isn't a completely unlikeable, unpleasant slacker.

But Steven Rogers deserves the credit for creating the very clever script.

But the film deserves credit for not taking the Hollywood route at the ending; it may not be making any kind of profound political point in this decision, but it is the right way of doing it.

The generically titled «Book Club» deserves credit for not being what it easily could h...

While it's quite clear what Spielberg is saying, he deserves credit for tastefully handling it in a way so that it never comes across as too preachy.

It's very hard to make a film about «underprivileged» individuals without resorting to clichés, stereotypes or mawkish sentimentality, and The Arbor deserves credit for steadfastly avoiding any of these.

At the same time, Cooper (who also wrote the screenplay) deserves credit for not providing much in the way of easy resolution and answers in Hostiles.

However good or bad its execution, it deserves some credit for attempting a noble task, namely trying to repackage the classic Greek Myths to inspire a new generation.

Langella and Sheen's stirring work certainly goes a long way towards cementing Frost / Nixon's mild success, while Howard surely deserves credit for infusing the production with a distinctly cinematic quality that generally belies its stage origins.

The result is a marvel of literate, elegant dialogue and, if nothing else, Fassbinder deserves credit himself for not being afraid to take chances.

READING My friend Alyson deserves the credit for introducing me to Rachel Hollis over a year ago.

William Banting, a British undertaker, deserves credit for developing the first VLCKD for weight loss in the mid 1800s.

In fact i defenitely did begin to develop a lot more ab definition while using some of these exercises, so i think he still deserves some credit for delivering about what his channel promised

Cruise deserves credit for recognizing the needs of dieters who want to lose weight but who have physical problems with exercise.

A few years ago, when I got too pregnant to continue with my usual yoga class, I turned to her excellent Prenatal Yoga DVD to keep me limber — and I truly believe she deserves some credit for the relatively short, easy labor that brought my daughter into the world.

NASA deserves credit for this valuable activity and is urged to continue it.

Four of these scholarships are financed by the Australian government, which deserves credit for its foresight.

Although Colbert deserves credit for coining the word, psychologists have long known that people rely on their feelings to draw all sorts of conclusions, and a recent paper clarifies one situation that seems to lead us to strong feelings of truthiness — the presence of additional related (but irrelevant) information.

«John [Remo] deserves credit for coming up with a way to get a handle on this problem in the laboratory.

Markram deserves credit for the realism of the multicompartmental model neurons used in Blue Brain.

«Snyder deserves credit for making it clear that savant abilities might be extremely important for understanding aspects of human nature and creativity.»

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has claimed that he deserves credit for bringing Mohamed Salah to Stamford Bridge.

«I do not believe, nor do I think families worried about accessing health care, think anyone deserves credit for starting a process to take away a person's ability to get health care,» Miner said.

He deserves the credit for the fact that we won seats.»

He deserves credit for his dramatic gesture in the debate, but shouldn't he follow this up by handing that money back?

In today's Congressional Corner, Republican candidate Elise Stefanik tells WAMC's Alan Chartock retiring Congressman Bill Owens deserves credit for his attention to border issues.

Some additional thoughts: Espada deserves credit for at least trying something like this.

Zac Goldsmith MP deserves credit for sponsoring a bill to introduce a mechanism for the recall of MPs and to ensure that it was effective.

«Governor Cuomo deserves credit for neither attempting to include regulatory language nor increase resources to proceed with fracking in his budget proposal.

«He deserves credit for putting that much money on the table,» said state Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), the Senate majority leader.

Cuomo deserves credit for focusing on one of the region's most intractable problems, asking questions and injecting urgency into the search for solutions.

The board also supported the decision and supported Bharucha in a statement, saying the financial situation of the school when he arrived was «not of his making and he deserves credit for sounding the alarm about the need to take urgent action to ensure Cooper Union's long - term financial sustainability.»

To wit: «Nancy Pelosi deserves some credit for convincing Sue Sullivan to embrace her painfully out - of - of touch liberal agenda.

Like the ban or hate it, Bloomberg deserves credit for turning the word «mayor» into «what it's supposed to be — a verb,» says Mike Lupica.

«Jack Martins was a hard - working candidate who listened to the concerns of Nassau County families on their doorsteps and in their communities, and he deserves credit for this extraordinary victory.

Edward Erikson, a consultant who works with prominent Sanders supporter Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream fame) and other activists trying to reduce the role of big money in politics, said Sanders himself deserves the credit for motivating small donors.

One may not agree with the content of his ideas or how he's voted, but he deserves credit for his approach.

«The governor deserves credit for putting $ 1 billion on the table,» Flanagan said.

A plurality of Democrats believe President Donald Trump deserves credit for the current state of the economy, rather than former President Barack Obama, according to a new poll.