Sentences with phrase «quite get a fair shake»

Green's «Joe» didn't quite get a fair shake in theaters this year — it seemed to split the difference between the mainstream audiences who don't care for Nicolas Cage in a non-going-big performance and indie audiences who didn't know what to do with him, but it's an underrated picture, and Wingo and McIlwain can place another feather in their cap for this moody and memorable score.