Sentences with phrase «nastiest piece of work on»

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When faced with a movie like Listen Up Philip, a clever, nasty piece of work, I have to wonder if Hollywood's insistence on likeable characters doesn't have some merit.

It's an effectively nasty piece of work, well - acted and filmed with a blue - gray pallor that sometimes made the DVD image (2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen) hard to make out on my portable player but is more than apt under the circumstances.

Writer - director Oren Moverman (working from a novel by Herman Koch) eventually reveals that Paul is mentally ill; Paul and Claire's insufferably entitled teenage son is a nasty piece of work who set a homeless woman on fire; Stan's stepson is an imbecile who recorded the murder on his cellphone and posted it.

I watched a little of the doco about PL Travers the other night on TV and I don't think even Emma Thompson could have portrayed what a nasty piece of work she really was!