Sentences with phrase «reviews were lukewarm»

Initial HomePod reviews were lukewarm at best.

But then even with the improved gearbox reviews were lukewarm so there is no reason to believe this will happen.

The few reviews were lukewarm.

Not exact matches

Reviews have been lukewarm.

It's hard to believe after Apple's unprecedented run of hits, but this isn't the first time one of its products has received lukewarm reviews.

Well I did not finish the book because of the first 110 pages, so your review makes me think I should read the rest It was Chen claim of the Lukewarm why I stopped ready.

With most reviews giving the MPs a lukewarm rating over their criticism of the four men yesterday, the committee members may be looking to make the bankers bleed today.

I am surprised and dismayed by the bad and lukewarm reviews this movie got.

Even though it is mostly getting positive reviews, Ant - Man still has one very big hurdle to overcome: the lukewarm reception by audiences, and the very real possibility that by breaking from the Marvel mold, the film positions itself to alienate and confuse die hard fans of the MCU formula.

Reviews from Toronto were barely lukewarm, with critics generally agreeing that this lightweight culture - clash drama represents a marked improvement over Coixet's last two features — Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo and Another Me, neither significantly distributed in the U.S. — while being otherwise unremarkable.

The sci - fi film about a dystopian future in which Earth is attacked by aliens, which starred Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich, managed to rake in $ 263.9 million at the box office despite lukewarm reviews.

The Cannes Film Festival is in full - swing and acclaimed director Todd Haynes» (Carol, Far From Heaven) highly - anticipated adaptation of Brian Selznick's YA novel Wonderstruck was one of the first films screened at the fest — and it was met with reviews that ranged from raves to lukewarm.

There were moans after one critic, Cole Smithey, gave Greta Gerwig's mother - daughter drama «Lady Bird» a lukewarm review — tripping up the film's high score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Payne said it was difficult on every level — writing, financing, editing — and also addressed the lukewarm reviews it was met with upon opening late last year, suggesting that its ambitious narrative may have been too much to fit into the framework of a single film.

The film premiered at Sundance late last week to relatively positive reviews (we were lukewarm) and it follows «a woman (Keri Russell) obsessed with the BBC production of «Pride and Prejudice «who travels to an Austen - styled England resort to find her perfect gentleman.»

Watched in spite of lukewarm reviews, but it turned out to be a winner.

Once thought to be a serious Oscar contender, Labor Day opened to lukewarm reviews out of the Toronto International Film Festival and has largely fallen off the radar as one to be strongly anticipated.

I told Refn that I was lukewarm on the film (read my review) at first, but the more time I had time to let it stew in my brain, the more I liked it.

Despite being received with lukewarm reviews, 2011's Insidious put James Wan on the map.

When No Man's Sky was released on August 16, 2016, the highly anticipated title was met with lukewarm reviews and enraged customers who felt cheated.

That rare thing — a troubled Pixar production — The Good Dinosaur was many years in the making and finally appeared at the end of 2015, to lukewarm reviews and box office.

The lukewarm reviews aren't so thrilling... probably a reason I haven't rushed out to see it yet.

Even though The A.V. Club's Mike D'Angelo gave it a lukewarm C + review at Cannes — «the movie ultimately doesn't have a narrative so much as it has a Message, and while Winding Refn doesn't actually go so far as to spell that Message out in big neon letters, he might as well have,» he writes — the arrival of a new Nicolas Winding Refn movie is still a movie - going event.

They could be made to go really fast, unfortunately few journalists were shown how the cars should be driven to make use of their weight bias, and the reviews were rarely more than lukewarm.

After seeing distinctly lukewarm reviews for this engine in other applications I'm surprised there's a clamour for it - from Autocar's own RS5 review:

With this, you get the same torsion beam rear end (Volkswagen's words, not mine) that has been a fixture of many lukewarm reviews of the MkVI Jetta.

Usually, I would say that even a lukewarm book review is better than no book review at all, or a combative interviewer is far kinder than the interviewer who chooses to ignore you completely.

Some lukewarm reviews say they want to read the second book (this baffles me), so I know it's not just that they're requesting a free book.

Given early indications that the Android - based Motorola Xoom and Galaxy Tab are not selling well, that RIM has shipped — not sold — a mere 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks, and that HP's webOS TouchPad tablet has garnered only lukewarm reviews, those numbers even strike us as a little ambitious.

Some critics love it, some are lukewarm, but even those who write less than glowing reviews have to admit that, whatever Hosseini's literary weaknesses might be, he does write very compelling storylines and is indisputably one of the world's nicer human beings.

That's why authors freak out and respond irrationally to bad or even merely lukewarm reviews.

But the online retailer is also known for radically slashing smartphone prices, so the sale does not necessarily indicate a long - term loss of faith in the device, despite lukewarm early reviews.

Reviews aren't always glowing, and believe it or not, even some of your loved ones will be lukewarm about your novel.

The reviews have ranged from lukewarm to made - me - cry - they - were - so - excellent, and I know that could definitely be much worse.

We start out hoping for a bunch of rave reviews from big name book blogs or prestigious print journals, but after 100s of rejections from overwhelmed sites, we're grateful for a lukewarm mention on a blog with a readership of two people and a parakeet.

When Publishers Weekly finally reviewed the dystopian sci - fi thriller «Wool» last month, its assessment was lukewarm.

Little Racers STREET is the only game that got a lukewarm review via Metacritic (of the games that had reviews), but if you're looking for some games to play, I'd say this isn't a bad lot here.

The PC release has received lukewarm reviews and there have been numerous issues regarding bugs and exploits.

NMH2 has been receiving fairly lukewarm reviews and it seems that Suda51's setting his sights on bigger and better things.

Despite the lukewarm reviews The Force Unleashed received from the media, I was a big fan of the game.

It was clear that the Call of Duty franchise had come to a crossroads when it launched Infinite Warfare last year to rather lukewarm reviews.

They aren't just lukewarm reviews, but often say it's the greatest or most intense FPS they have played.»

They are rarely taken seriously, harshly reviewed by critics, and often leave a lukewarm feeling for fans.

Realtime Worlds» Cops & Robbers MMORPG has been highly anticipated - but has also been receiving some severely lukewarm review scores.

But now I'm thinking: maybe it got lukewarm reviews b / c it was basically a better re-hash of the first game.

If anything, bad reviews and lukewarm reception seem to be the least of del Toro's concerns as a creator; he's had to bounce back from worse.

Tbh, I'm kinda encouraged by the review, regardless of the scant detail and lukewarm response to the game.

The game wasn't terrible, but it turned out be another example of a mediocre launch title, getting mostly lukewarm reviews from critics.

Early reviews of the Harman Kardon Invoke with Cortana — the smart speaker that features Microsoft's personal assistant — have been lukewarm at best.

The timing of the Google Pixel release was just right, as Samsung was just garnering the headlines with the explosive batteries on the Note 7 and the iPhone 7 was getting lukewarm reviews.