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Well recommended to connoisseurs of the obscure and bizarre, anyone looking for conventional film making qualities or coherence will be less well served.
Ms. Jolie is definitely an attractive woman by conventional standards!
Loryn Locklin had no such experience, She wanders in a daze through the conventional plot, resembling a lost cocker spaniel.
But combining a conventional Twain character with far-fetched fantasy plots was a nauseous mix.
History, having no clear beginning and no clear end, is almost impossible to squeeze into the conventional story structures demanded of cinema-going audiences - at least as they are perceived by film financiers.
Disappointingly awkward drama from revered director Fritz Lang, here taking an oddly conventional approach to the story and scenario and completely ignoring the suspenseful possibilities.
It's not conventional, but definitely leaves you feeling good about the human condition and the possibilities that love can bring, even in the most diverse ways.
The human soul is sadly unattended to in our contemporary culture because of the moral bankruptcy of the conventional religious institutions.
Another boring early 90s movie about desperate, unattractive males and the desperately conventional women who coo and giggle at them.
It's got a much more coherent plot than any of his era--with a much more conventional format.
In 1952, it was probably a proto-feminist statement to have Hepburn leave a conventional but dull romance to fulfill her career potential as an athlete.
While I disagree with the conventional wisdom about the Marx Brothers' film made before The Big Store, Go West (1940), believing it to be yet another one of their many masterpieces, I have to agree with the conventional wisdom about The Big Store.
My own enjoyment of it was further enhanced by my love of languages, zeal for seeking subtext, and boredom with conventional film clichés.
She likes computers, he likes books... a little conventional, but fun none the less.
So are the lines of conventional philosophies.
You have to work hard sometimes to get into what he's doing, because he often throws conventional plot points, "hooks" that grab you, and structure, out the window.
This film is brilliant, because it defies conventional stereotypes of European settlers and American Indians.
It's campy and hilarious, but it's mostly a specific type of humor and while there are some jokes that deviate from this basic strategy, the show is not a conventional sitcom (which relies heavily on one-liners).
However, this is a Takashi Miike film we're talking about, not some "safe", conventional film.
The film is not your conventional horror movie, but that is what makes it so scary.
The conventional use of flashbacks and slow motion become rather mundane.
'Star' of the production, Tchéky Karyo does not even seem to be able to act in the conventional sense.
After the eclipse, however, the movie settles into a conventional "chase" mode which, though interesting, can't compare to the first 95 minutes.
It challenges all conventional ideas we have about love.
Judging from the enthusiastic response at Sunday night's screening, I suspect that if THE WOODS were given a conventional theatrical release, it would attract a wide audience.
Shedding itself of any accompanying score or conventional direction, Keane tightly and uncomfortably focuses on the title character's obsession for the first and last sections of the film.
It is mostly conventional, in fact, tailored for Christopher Reeve's pet project (apparently he got to star in this thanks, and/or no thanks, to Superman 4), and it is also tailored for what Reeve can do as a somewhat limited actor.
Derailroaded might be about music, but Wild Man Fischer isn't particularly musical in any conventional sense.
Full of wry touches, there is never a pause in the mind's contribution and nothing conventional to help you catch your breath.
As you've no doubt gathered from surrounding reviews the story line centers around a coming-of-age confrontation with family realities in a family none too conventional.
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