Sentences with phrase «facile ending»
There's real heart to be found in the story but it comes along with borderline saccharine sentimentality, a too facile ending, and clean outcomes that aren't earned.
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The movie flirts with some facile ideas about the value of life, but at the end, we're left feeling drained and wondering if the sound and fury signified anything at all.
There are moments of exquisite visual splendour in every one of Spielberg's films, no matter their relative success (and The Terminal is certainly no different in that respect), but the picture is so desperate to please that it becomes facile and patronizing long before an ending that casts everything in the peculiar vintage of Spielbergian schmaltz.
A film like this makes me wonder if we are coming to the end of the facile, snarky indie films.
By the end of the 2000s, web - search and constant connectivity had given the world's information to every employee, whenever and wherever they needed it, and eLearning seemed like a facile distraction rather than a critical performance enabler.
They all share in the same desire to achieve some facile similarity to real science, but they end up looking just as odd as the cargo culters.