Sentences with phrase «weak material»

Unfortunately, the performers have such weak material with which to work that the entire project falls flat.

Color Cage for Pets comfort and safety Dogs are strong animals that are difficult to contain especially if the cage is made of weak material.

The latest from Cannes includes a new pile of fluff from The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, and a solid gloss on weak material from André Téchiné.

Something about her acting just pulls the audience into her pathos, even when she has to work with weak material.

It had once been my opinion that quality actors could help weak material succeed but I have rethought who is a quality actor.

It has a mediocre supporting cast and David E. Kelley provides weak material to work with.

And, by now, Kidman has mastered that survival skill honed by all good actors — faking conviction in the midst of weak material — and it serves her brilliantly here.

It has a reasonable cast who do their best with weak material that provides them with no depth or even anything resembling personality, and while it looks decent enough the action sequences are utterly bland.

We purchased another a month ago and the seat seems to be made from a weaker material.

Like most nearly - two - hour comedies, Sisters does run long in the tooth and curiously elongates some of the weaker material.

The cast, which is led by Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, and an amusingly foul - mouthed Betty White, is game enough, but they can not elevate the weak material beyond the watchable junk level.

She's as tortured as Liv Ullmann in an Ingmar Bergman movie, and the result is a reminder that, with weak material, it's often worse to have a really good actor.

«Southpaw» is a vehicle in which the major cast members overshadow the weak material.

In The Opposite of Sex, he coaxed a star - making performance from Christina Ricci, despite the weak material surrounding her.

This was attributed to powerful sector allocation, as management smartly underweighted the weak materials sector and emphasized the strong technology and industrial sectors.