Sentences with phrase «overly didactic»

Its greatest weakness is its overly didactic script.

During the Soviet period, the name Nizhniy Novgorod, which basically means «new city,» was replaced by the name «Gorky,» because of the famous — and overly didactic — Soviet author who spent his childhood there, Maxim Gorky.

The more movies he makes, the more Paul Greengrass's have - it - both - ways m.o. as a filmmaker becomes clearer, aiming to craft high - octane action spectacles that also thoughtfully address topical events and current sociopolitical realities without becoming overly didactic.

As a political statement, American Dreamz is overly didactic and liberal in a read - too - many - blogs sort of way (SmirkingChimp.com, anyone?).

It is not overly didactic or preachy and instead gets the perfect balance of emotional impact, political commentary and historical re-enactment.

A newcomer to Leigh's films, veteran editor Jim Clark points up the difference money makes to women in need of abortions without allowing the film to become overly didactic.

The film benefits from solid performances by its four stars, but it is overly didactic and drawn - out as its comic tone grows darker and darker.

I try not to be overly didactic when it comes to other people's eating habits, though.

Perhaps it would seem overly didactic to spell them out, or too much an intrusion of private judgments into a work directed to the public domain.

Not exact matches

It's a genre piece, and it's uneven (for once the juvenile actors in a movie aren't as good as the grownups) but it's not didactic or overly preachy and it makes some trenchant points about despair.

Some reviewers feel that Wizard is overly long, overly repetitious and a tad didactic.

Some reviewers feel that it is overly long and repetitious and a tad didactic, but that is perhaps to lose sight of the fact that it wasn't written in a Western language or, in the first instance, for a Western audience, but for a Kenyan audience still familiar with the oral tradition - in Kenya his works are often read aloud over a period of (many!)

Rather than being overly clinical or didactic, these images function as personal experiences of global phenomena.