Sentences with phrase «from broad slapstick»

David Gordon Green's films of late have run the gamut from broad slapstick (Your Highness) to understated drama (Joe), so seeing where a cynical political dramedy falls on the spectrum should be a draw in and of itself.

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Rarely do sequels equal or exceed expectations but this comedy does, offering broad slapstick that's guaranteed to elicit laughter from small children and their parents.

But the past few years have seen the emergence of a batch of exciting young figurative painters who, though their concerns are varied, share a number of intriguing characteristics: they are attuned to humor (slapstick looms large), fixated on the body, rapacious in their mining of both art history and the broader culture (from TV to Internet memes), and most of all, determined to impart pleasure.