Sentences with phrase «films lack of commitment»

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Oddly enough, it might be what initially seems to be a failing of his work: despite his political commitment, Güney's films often lacked the discipline to lay out or support any specific ideology.

That Coogler manages to work genuine racial issues into the film's narrative without turning it into a didactic ideological crusade is a mark of his dexterity as a storyteller and his commitment to a sense of humanism that is all too often lacking in the world of big action filmmaking.

Woody is often sharp with character study and Jasmine is something else, but his portrait of San Francisco working class folk is less convincing and carried only by the strength of a typically excellent cast (it also co-stars Louis C. K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg) and an honesty and commitment that the socially poised rich of the film lack.