Sentences with phrase «something vacuous»

He's concocted a plot just busy enough to distract from these worn cynicisms and a set of characters too enigmatic to dismiss as mere chess pieces off the bat, but by the end, Happy End reveals itself as something vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked - out payoff.

The film reveals itself as something vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked - out payoff.

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We've all experienced the vacuous attempts to learn something together as a group without an expert present.

No doubt, wisdom lies in taking a pass on Hall Pass, but bravery demands something else, something far more instructive: Watch it, every vacuous frame, if only to measure the precise aesthetic distance from blessing to curse.

Michael Sheen Again, one only glimpsed in the trailer, Sheen plays something of a social ringmaster attempting to convince Amy Adams» Susan to dig in her heels and enjoy her vacuous success.

Lanthimos fills their scenes with purposefully vacuous small - talk, but we know something's up, and when it's revealed, it's certainly from out of leftfield.

Its entire cast save for a slumming Plummer (and that's really saying something) is a giant sucking vortex at the center of an already empty picture, and its screenplay is so rudderless and random that it might just as well have been written by the vacuous pre-teens who most likely comprise its key demographic.

All the while, assure them that their sense of self - worth never has to be tied to something as vacuous as social media.