Sentences with phrase «lukewarm reviews out»

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.

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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.
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