Sentences with phrase «more predictable»

Unfortunately, we in the education reform policy community have turned a blind eye to these innovations and more customized solutions, instead focusing on creating more uniform schools, to ensure more predictable outcomes.

Once a business understands the range of jobs that are causing customers to hire solutions, it can redesign its products around those jobs to garner far greater, more predictable returns.

Instead, candidates who won tended to follow more predictable scripts.

• At the same time, the state should consider placing all new workers into a new plan that is more predictable for the state while providing workers with adequate retirement benefits that includes Social Security.

Pension plans also afford teachers a more predictable source of income into retirement, which is particularly important for low - and middle - income teachers.

-RRB- as movies grow more predictable and CGI effects get even crappier.

As far as biopics go, there are much safer and more predictable ones than this.

Miriam is much more spirited, but once the movie leaps forward a few months to the fated day of the storm, she's relegated to a more predictable role, biting her lip and worrying about Bernie on the shore while he's off being a hero.

While Murphy is less flighty than one expects, the other participants are far more predictable, with Fleder taking the running - off - at - the - mouth cake upon comparing Bean to Robert Shaw.

Morgan covers much the same ground as Ex Machina did last year, though its story and resolution are far more predictable and less satisfying.

As the film moves along the jokes and setups become more predictable due to the one - dimensional nature of each character.

Stripping aside, the plot couldn't be more predictable.

But Bell and co-star Simon Pegg are such enjoyably unlikely rom - com leads, and they have such crackling chemistry from the word go, they more than make up for some of the film's more predictable plot elements.

Blue My Mind also centers on a high - school girl trying desperately to fit in, although its narrative goes in a more predictable direction — as predictable as a body - horror movie about a girl who's slowly turning into a mermaid can be, anyway.

Whiplash also went on to win Best Editing which was well deserved, if surprising to me, along with the more predictable Best Sound award.

The environments are a bit more predictable, but still manage a very high level of detail as well.

Kat returns home from college years later, triggering a series of convenient chats, each more predictable than the last.

The only thing more predictable than the action beats is the mountain of platitudes from the lips of the cast.

This particular sport seems to produce some of the more predictable movies of the years in which they're released.

Strong chemistry between Mendelsohn and Reynolds ease the more predictable elements from taking hold and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck «s ability to slam the occasional magical surrealism into his pragmatic sentiment makes Mississippi Grind a well - played victory, if not a chip - sweeping royal flush.

The upshot of this loopy masquerade is more predictable than it is progressive, but considerably pleasurable thanks to Morris's generous supply of pithy one - liners and the resourceful, ribald skills of Bell, as engaging and elastic a comic everywoman here as she was in her impressive directorial debut «In a World...» (Her styling, meanwhile, calls to mind Sally Hawkins, who could well have put a sweeter spin on the same role.)

«Stir of Echoes,» based on a 1958 Richard Matheson novel, takes a more predictable turn.

The new movie is still wildly energetic and eye - catching, but it also has a more predictable plot that takes fewer risks.

As the movie grows more far - fetched it actually gets more predictable, in both plot twists and camera setups — you can actually see when Edgerton frames a shot so that a character can get «unexpectedly» slammed by a car.

The film is a lengthy two hours, and the plot does take a few too many swerves, with each more predictable than the last.

Juan becomes something of a father figure, but that might make this relationship sound more predictable than it is.

From using her son as a human meat shield to employing dirty tactics to try and beat him in a jousting competition, Hahn's performance ensures that even Carla's more predictable antics are funnier than they have any right to be.

More predictable are the occasional spots of woman trouble.

Other elements of Capcom's show are more predictable.

A chance encounter with another orphan of the kaiju war, genius robot pilot - wannabe Amara Namani (Cailee Spaeny) results in both being arrested and inducted into the Pan Pacific Defense Corps just in time to battle another monster incursion as well as mysterious rogue robots in a subplot that's more predictable than it seems to realize.

The absence of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in the writing and directing chairs is noticeable (they are executive producers only this time around), but this is a very fun, if a bit more predictable, ride.

As Hoult starts developing feelings, the film becomes more and more predictable.

There is always the hope of a theatrical breakout, but the more predictable return on investment from theatrical P&A dollars is the unparalleled exposure it gives an asset that the company will monetizing for next seven to 10 years.

The arrival of Chris Pine's character adds some much - needed conflict to the proceedings, although it takes the story into more predictable territory, while the religious undertones (from the Eden - like valley, to Caleb's snake - like instigator) are laid on a bit thick.

Once policemen and bumpkins are introduced in a series of repetitive «I don't believe your story — hey, why did the lights go out» scenarios, however, Jeepers Creepers, while retaining Salva's indisputably cinematic eye, becomes something a good deal more predictable and consequently safer.

Critics Consensus: Due to its use of cliched and ludicrous plot devices, this thriller is more predictable than suspenseful.

Critics Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

For all its immersion in the roar, grease and danger of Formula One, the fact - based Rush — about the sport's great rivalry of the 1970s — is also more predictable than a pit stop, something well - suited to Mr. Howard.

Some truths about corporate greed and absentee parenting are buried deep within this superficial redemption melodrama that's more predictable than provocative.

It may keep them in the game longer, but it makes for more predictable TV.

Critic Consensus: Due to its use of cliched and ludicrous plot devices, this thriller is more predictable than suspenseful.

Critic Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

The landscapes are both beautiful and harrowing, even if the second half of the film veers into more predictable love - triangle territory that squanders some of the provocative ideas introduced at the outset.

The story becomes even more predictable that I find myself guessing what Arthas will say next.

Comparisons to Top Gun are inevitable, but NBC's JAG flies at lower and more predictable altitudes.

Characters lean too heavily toward the Southern grotesque, and the direction the plot is heading is more predictable than it should be.

The user reviews are more predictable if you think about it because its the critics job to watch films whereas its our choice to see these films and i think this film is really good.

Dating with herpes is much more simple if the behavior of the virus is more predictable to you.

As well as the more predictable aspects like messages, flirts and favourites, the site offers chat and even the opportunity to check for an astrological match.

I've been doing this blogging thing for a long time — my 7th blogging anniversary is just around the corner — so I can't help but feel like I'm becoming more and more predictable, at least as far as my outfit formulas go.