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.
Not exact matches
Watched in spite of
lukewarm reviews, but it turned
out to be a winner.
Even though The A.V. Club's Mike D'Angelo gave it a
lukewarm C +
review at Cannes — «the movie ultimately doesn't have a narrative so much as it has a Message, and while Winding Refn doesn't actually go so far as to spell that Message
out in big neon letters, he might as well have,» he writes — the arrival of a new...
The
lukewarm reviews aren't so thrilling... probably a reason I haven't rushed
out to see it yet.
Even though The A.V. Club's Mike D'Angelo gave it a
lukewarm C +
review at Cannes — «the movie ultimately doesn't have a narrative so much as it has a Message, and while Winding Refn doesn't actually go so far as to spell that Message
out in big neon letters, he might as well have,» he writes — the arrival of a new Nicolas Winding Refn movie is still a movie - going event.
That's why authors freak
out and respond irrationally to bad or even merely
lukewarm reviews.
We start
out hoping for a bunch of rave
reviews from big name book blogs or prestigious print journals, but after 100s of rejections from overwhelmed sites, we're grateful for a
lukewarm mention on a blog with a readership of two people and a parakeet.
The game wasn't terrible, but it turned
out be another example of a mediocre launch title, getting mostly
lukewarm reviews from critics.