Sentences with phrase «lukewarm reviews»

Sure, it's only received lukewarm reviews, but the presentation and atmosphere are absolutely incredible, and in my opinion even the gameplay is pretty fun.

The game wasn't terrible, but it turned out be another example of a mediocre launch title, getting mostly lukewarm reviews from critics.

The PC release has received lukewarm reviews and there have been numerous issues regarding bugs and exploits.

Despite lukewarm reviews for its first season, BoJack improved dramatically and received critical acclaim for the following three campaigns.

RIM's tablet was met with lukewarm reviews at launch and has struggled ever since, culminating in the company posting a $ 485 - million pre-tax write - off due to unsold devices.

With this, you get the same torsion beam rear end (Volkswagen's words, not mine) that has been a fixture of many lukewarm reviews of the MkVI Jetta.

After seeing distinctly lukewarm reviews for this engine in other applications I'm surprised there's a clamour for it - from Autocar's own RS5 review:

But now I'm thinking: maybe it got lukewarm reviews b / c it was basically a better re-hash of the first game.

I remember Max Payne 2 getting lukewarm reviews at the time, so I stayed away.

Jolie's drama, despite its epic sweep and impressive $ 157m (# 102m) at the box office worldwide, has received only lukewarm reviews compared to major Oscars contenders such as Birdman, Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The prime minister's closing speech yesterday won lukewarm reviews in the press, on a day still dominated by developments in the battle between Miliband and the Mail over an article claiming his academic father «hated Britain».

It's hard to imagine, but the second Star Wars movie actually received very lukewarm reviews.

Once thought to be a serious Oscar contender, Labor Day opened to lukewarm reviews out of the Toronto International Film Festival and has largely fallen off the radar as one to be strongly anticipated.

In New York City, the Department of Education and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who pledged to address school discipline in his progressive - themed mayoral campaign, rolled out a highly anticipated plan in February, which was met with a somewhat lukewarm review.

However, due to tepid sales and generally lukewarm reviews, the Outlander was redesigned for the 2005 model year.

That's why authors freak out and respond irrationally to bad or even merely lukewarm reviews.

It was clear that the Call of Duty franchise had come to a crossroads when it launched Infinite Warfare last year to rather lukewarm reviews.

They aren't just lukewarm reviews, but often say it's the greatest or most intense FPS they have played.»

Realtime Worlds» Cops & Robbers MMORPG has been highly anticipated - but has also been receiving some severely lukewarm review scores.

Perhaps most notably, Mighty No. 9, created by Mega Man designer Keiji Inafune, earned $ 3,845,170 in pledges but took three years to deliver and earned lukewarm reviews when it finally did.

Pierre - Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919), one of the original group of innovative French impressionists that included Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, struggled for years through lukewarm reviews and hardship brought on by the...

At the higher end, its flagship Galaxy S5 arrived to relatively lukewarm reviews, and the company's feeling more and more heat from Apple and a smorgasbord of capable Android devices.

And, of course, we're talking about the Korean firm's still - new «V» series, which debuted last October with the dual - display - powered V10 amid lukewarm reviews.

The sci - fi film about a dystopian future in which Earth is attacked by aliens, which starred Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich, managed to rake in $ 263.9 million at the box office despite lukewarm reviews.

The film met with lukewarm reviews and fairly anemic box - office results, but Kinnear's subsequent film, 1998's You've Got Mail, struck gold.

Slingshot, reportedly one of Mark Zuckerberg's pet projects, initially launched back in June to mostly lukewarm reviews.

The first venture into film production by «Twilight» author Stephenie Meyer, it drew fairly lukewarm reviews (including ours), but seems to be among the more commercial prospects on offer, and newcomers Exclusive Releasing (a division of financiers Exclusive Media) are partnering with FilmDistrict, who had success last year with Sundance flick «Safety Not Guaranteed,» to acquire the film.

«Super Mario Sunshine did better, selling over a million copies, but the game got lukewarm reviews.»

Given early indications that the Android - based Motorola Xoom and Galaxy Tab are not selling well, that RIM has shipped — not sold — a mere 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks, and that HP's webOS TouchPad tablet has garnered only lukewarm reviews, those numbers even strike us as a little ambitious.

It's hard to believe after Apple's unprecedented run of hits, but this isn't the first time one of its products has received lukewarm reviews.

You would assume, despite his lukewarm review of the course, that he still liked his chances this week as he labored over lag putts late into a «peaceful evening» just hours before the first round.

The governor's memoir had dismal sales (about 3,000 copies from its release in October 2014 through February of this year) and received lukewarm reviews.

Against the backdrop of lukewarm reviews, however, a planned expansion of BioWatch, Generation 2.5, was canceled in fall 2008.

First, Beth Dinkel offers a lukewarm review of 10 Years.

There were moans after one critic, Cole Smithey, gave Greta Gerwig's mother - daughter drama «Lady Bird» a lukewarm review — tripping up the film's high score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Payne said it was difficult on every level — writing, financing, editing — and also addressed the lukewarm reviews it was met with upon opening late last year, suggesting that its ambitious narrative may have been too much to fit into the framework of a single film.

Most recently he helmed Passion back in 2012, which starred Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace and received lukewarm reviews.

But when the film was unveiled at the Toronto Film Festival in September, it was met with lukewarm reviews.

Watched in spite of lukewarm reviews, but it turned out to be a winner.

Cannes» sole major studio film in competition, Alexander Payne's «Nebraska,» made off with some lukewarm reviews, The Guardian giving it four out of five stars, but IndieWire grading it a B - and calling it «affably unexceptional.»

Despite being received with lukewarm reviews, 2011's Insidious put James Wan on the map.

When No Man's Sky was released on August 16, 2016, the highly anticipated title was met with lukewarm reviews and enraged customers who felt cheated.

That rare thing — a troubled Pixar production — The Good Dinosaur was many years in the making and finally appeared at the end of 2015, to lukewarm reviews and box office.

Lancaster was highly - popular at the time, which ensured the film did pretty well at the box office despite lukewarm reviews.

Despite lukewarm reviews, the Scarlet Johansson starrer Lucy has gone on to best Dwayne Johnson's latest crack at a franchise starter, Hercules...

The lukewarm reviews aren't so thrilling... probably a reason I haven't rushed out to see it yet.