Sentences with phrase «less talented director»

And while under a less talented director, this could have crossed the line into over-the-top melodrama.

Not exact matches

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

Fortunately, TCMFF 2018 did offer various opportunities to celebrate talented, perhaps less zingy writer - directors such as Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career); James Ivory (Maurice); Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer); Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a salute which makes me happy even though my mind remains boggled that it ever managed to happen); and Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), whose gem - laden career bears an inordinate degree of dedication to making sports movies the way Hollywood doesn't like to make»em — raunchy, unpredictable, often melancholy — and then proving that audiences would come to see them anyway.

A less talented and more shameless director might've turned it into cornmeal mush, but Niki Caro («Whale Rider») has delivered unto the Disney corporation a Kevin Costner sports movie that works.

His same - year follow - up, «The Sitter,» opening this weekend, is far less disastrous but similarly disappointing in that it displays flaws that the talented director never showed even hints of previous to 2011.