Sentences with phrase «glib character»

It's just a glib character study with a hard shell and a soft belly.

March 15, 2018 • Max Winkler's tale of a teenager who uses sex to get revenge on a man who may or may not have assaulted her step - brother is a «glib character study» that tries too hard to shock.

Not exact matches

Even Unforgiven, which is revered by younger filmmakers for its sense of despair, is a comic and colorful character study, with vignettes that resist glib sociopolitical codifying.

Even when these films are firing on all cylinders — milking their computerized action set - pieces for maximum whiz - bang effect, nailing their glib one - liners, purposefully commanding a requisite sense of seriousness from their sprawling cast of superpowered characters — their impact on the motion - picture arts amounts to a net negative.

Surely Jason Bateman's character, a glib and thoroughly unspecial «specialist,» is the very epitome of the American missionary - tourist - soldier, more fresh - faced, pencil - necked, and ill - informed even than the U.S. diplomat played by Jeremy Piven.

But, as in his script for American Beauty, he puts the screws to the rest of the characters with a glib comic flip, and his direction only compounds the cartoonish characterizations.

In lesser hands this character could have been glib or off - putting.

Driver's characters are not glib or sarcastic.

Annoying supporting characters, glib dialogue, a problematically short running time, and constant, contrived solutions to inescapable predicaments prevent this final outing from being memorable or even as enjoyable as «The Lost World» — which couldn't match up to the perfection of the original.

The opening scene in Manhattan showing Sebastian outsmarting a glib psychotherapist — which has no counterpart in the novel — seems somewhat forced and contrived, but it does set up the character's cockiness with a minimum of fuss.

«She is very much quick on her feet,» Metcalf tells ET about the challenge of playing what she describes as a «glib» character.

The more we learn about his plan, though, the more that Washington's performance seems a bad - to - the - bone stunt, a glib dabble in malevolence; it's less character study than career move.

THE HUMBLING is a throwback to a time when attention spans were longer, characters were created out of complex and even contradictory behaviors, and the story was an extension of the characters, not a glib contrivance.

Bringing various characters together to create conflicts means that each actor's respective screen time is reduced — and the little of it that remains is dedicated to abstract discussions of moral dilemmas and glib one - liners.

BOTTOM LINE Jocular gun violence and «colorful» characters make for an amusing but glib action - comedy.

I made that choice intentionally, though it entailed certain risks, the first, quite simply, that places of such celebrity may upstage characters and events; the second, that they will make the story seem superficial or glib, like the escapist fiction you buy at the airport to distract yourself from the boredom and anxiety of flying.