Sentences with phrase «feels glib»

But I, Tonya too often feels glib and glancing, holding the public responsible for many of the easy assumptions and narrative shortcuts the film itself indulges in while telling Harding's story.

The 2008 Biennial can feel glib, cold, confused, and way too spread out, not unlike a New Yorker's view of LA.

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The days when Mark Zuckerberg felt like he could be glib about the idea of Russia using Facebook to interfere in the presidential election suddenly seem long ago.

OK, I'm being a little glib here, no doubt because I'm feeling pretty bitter.

Then yesterday I had the displeasure of reading this piece by a mother who is so glib about her CIO experience and so focused on her own experiences without a second thought to her child, it made me feel physically ill.

However, there is a nagging feeling that Mr Kennedy, 39, has a long way to go to play down his image as a bon viveur whose instinct is to blurt out a glib one - liner rather than develop a more thoughtful political point.

It's a divertingly funny movie, but its breeziness can also feel overstated, at times glib and a bit of a dodge.

But Niccol's paranoid anxieties about the totalitarian dangers of cyberspace feel oddly glib and dated, light on thrills or narrative logic.

It's certainly lively and amusing in its smartass spoof / deconstruction of its source material and the»80s buddy - cop subgenre, but its cleverness often feels obvious and glib.

Sometimes, it feels a bit glib in its focus on the bromance between Thurman and the local white lawyer (Josh Gad) he hires to work with him, though Downton's Dan Stevens is nicely cast as the nasty golden - boy prosecutor who becomes increasingly peevish as the trial wears on.

Brolin's team of Untouchables includes charming ladies» man Gosling (who has finally reached the level of glib self - parody), weasel - faced electronics whiz Giovanni Ribisi, hot - headed Anthony Mackie, and sharpshooter Robert Patrick, whose performance as an anachronistic cowboy feels like a feature - length homage to Sam Elliott.

With his glib comments throughout the movie while showing that Cruise smile, makes Reacher feel even more unlikable her0.

A real - time exercise in witty dialogue, cartoonish violence and aim just bad enough to leave its protagonists bloodied but alive through most of its swift duration, «Free Fire» feels like a left - handed project from a filmmaker whose gifts for staging, framing and pacing are on full display but feel ultimately wasted in a glib, down - and - dirty bagatelle.

Nina Raine's new play is so emotionally bruising that it feels almost glib to describe it as «a black comedy».

,» which felt, to me, somewhat glib and condescending.

The title of Deborah Kass's exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, MORE Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times, is enough to clue the viewer into her glib brand of post-everything art.

The similarity is unmistakable, but I don't feel Wunderman is indulging here in some glib historicism.

In reality, I felt her paintings were too easy and glib in their mottled flesh, and just not serious enough about the challenge of depicting the human body with blobs of pigment on canvas.