Sentences with phrase «of flawed masterpiece»

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Finally, Runciman's History stands as a great work of literature, an astonishing masterpiece of style despite the flaws in historical exposition.

The result of deeply, deeply troubled production that David Fincher has all but washed his hands of, but one that some people still rate as a flawed masterpiece.

Marnie is a beguiling work from a cinematic genius, and the label of «flawed masterpiece» that others have given it seems warranted here.

That year, fortyish David O. Russell — the eldest of the group by a decade — followed up his delightfully neurotic Flirting With Disaster with the bravura Three Kings; Paul Thomas Anderson built on his Boogie Nights reputation with flawed masterpiece Magnolia; Wes Anderson offered the sly subversion Rushmore (technically a 1998 film but not released nationally until February 1999); and 29 - year - old M. Night Shyamalan hit box - office gold with the surprisingly mature thriller The Sixth Sense.

A film that remains a masterpiece even with its various minor flaws, Cast Away is an engaging and emotionally powerful tale of the power of the human spirit and our will to survive.

For all of its many flaws (emphasis on MANY), Lucio Fulci's 1979 B - movie near masterpiece «Zombie» (a.k.a. a slew of other titles) has enough worm - ridden zombie flesh, horrendously fake yet appalling gore, and completely superfluous female nudity to make this a winner.

Brody's performance as a musician struggling to stay alive during the Holocaust was powerful, but Daniel Day - Lewis was extraordinary as Bill Cutting, the butcher who ruled the streets of New York by fear in Scorsese's flawed masterpiece.

For its first 13 episodes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is most decidedly a masterpiece — this despite numerous nerve - trying flaws and longueurs that...

The film isn't a masterpiece and has a lot of flaws but for a horror comedy its simply a ton of fun with a whole lot of laughs to be had.

As such, when a game gets a 5... or less... despite having not one single technical flaw, solid game play mechanics which beat out some bigger name games, being about as long as any other game with the same presentation, and being a visual masterpiece, the merit of the review is going to be called into question... not naming names, just using an example.

It's got some flaws, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming an extremely well - loved and highly - rated game that MANY consider a masterpiece for its music and story alone, so keep on pretending that Nintendo's got nothing of interest going.

Jonathan Birkenstamm gives his full review of Horizon Zero Dawn, an open - world masterpiece that isn't without its flaws.

Nonetheless, some of its most hardened fans have dubbed it a «flawed masterpiece» and whilst our review is due to be released soon, that's a massive claim to make which I am unable to verify for myself (review out soon).

A flawed masterpiece loses many of its flaws in this version, and while there are still some irritating quirks, the overall design is still ahead of most contemporary video games in terms of depth and emotional intensity.

A game is more about numbers and individual flaws, as the experience of the entire package is so satisfying that you never feel let down by a masterpiece like this one.