Sentences with phrase «film skims over»
The film skims over Chaplin's life at a great rate, but little moments spring to life: Mildred Harris (Milla Jovovich) seducing Chapin, conversations with Douglas Fairbanks (Kevin Kline), Diane Lane's warm portrait of Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's greatest leading lady (and onetime wife) and Geraldine Chaplin playing her own grandmother.
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What we end up with is a film of great potential which never really gets into gear, and whose ideas are skimmed over for the sake of moving forward.
Condon's film also completely skims over the well - publicized rape allegations against Assange, and although that would have made an already unfocused narrative even more so, it's an important piece to the puzzle.
Director Bennett Miller has now made three consecutive features based on real - life people and / or events, and to my mind his films suffer from a failure of imagination, skimming lightly (but often self - importantly) over the surface of the verifiable.
Having read the book I knew what to expect and was surprised how much of the book was in the film, but was either skimmed over quite quickly or placed in a different sequential place entirely.
The final film gave the impression to skim over this betrayal and as such felt somewhat hole.
If the film were described as a tutorial on MBS (Mortgage - backed Securities), CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligations), Credit Default Swaps, Tranches, Bond Ratings, and Sub-Prime ARMs, most people's eyes would glaze over and they would keep skimming for showtimes of other new movie releases.