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The new writing/directing team of Megan Martin and Brett Sullivan pick up where the previous film left off, skillfully bridging the two with a bare minimum of rehashed exposition, and the end result is extremely satisfying (though the machinations of "Unleashed"'s final third made me wish the script had tied some thematic/character arcs together better).
Tyrone Power forsakes his "handsome man" image to star in this film, skillfully made (on a limited budget, I'm sure).
This movie is fast paced enough to please action fans but also skillfully creates suspense by keeping their stalker in the shadows so that the predator feels ever present and is just cautiously eyeing and selecting it's prey.
Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney play the parents, both writers, and they paint their characters skillfully, with genuine performances.
While the technology of the 20's in the forms of horse & street cars in the chases seem ancient now, they are never more skillfully employed in a film than they are in this gem.
Honestly, I thought many of the effects worked and the suspense was skillfully crafted, but the hypnosis scenes were where the movie began to go downhill.
Preity Zinta is marvelous as Shalini and skillfully sensitises her character.
Director Garson Kanin skillfully maintains the perfect serio-comedic tone throughout the film's runtime, and the picture is easily respected screenwriter's best film as a director.
Anyone who thinks that Bud Abbott wasn't the best straight man in the business should watch the Drill routine and check out how he consistently and skillfully reins in Costello whenever Lou's manic energy takes him too far outside the skit while still allowing him the freedom to employ the ad-libs and improvisations he was famous for.
Skillfully blending comedy, romance, and action, this is not to be missed.
Instead, it very skillfully provokes thought as it unfolds the story and experiences of both sides of a heated issue that is at the very core of this film.
Altho Clouseau is such a fool, Sellers plays him with such great presence, so artfully and skillfully, and, yes, suavely, the audience is actually, paradoxically, laughing with rather than at the bumbling Clouseau.
You build up skillfully to a climactic battle, and as the prince is raising his sword, you say, "But the dragon suddenly had a brain aneurysm and died, leaving the prince looking like a fool who lived unhappily ever after.
From an excellent Oscar nominated screenplay by R.Wright Cambell, Ben Roberts and Ivan Goff it was skillfully directed by Joseph Pevney.
No pulled punches and not a speck of self-referential wit here, just classic stalker/slasher mayhem, presented by Hooper in a style that skillfully evokes the low-budget, grainy realism of such earlier fright flicks as his own '74 classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Skillfully directed by John Sturges this was his first great success with the western genre.
This guy's claymation art, while skillfully done and painstakingly detailed, is truly disturbing.
I found this movie to be interesting and thoughtful, skillfully combining investigative reporting with art criticism and human interest.
It captures its period skillfully, and I found myself wanting to "enter" the story to help the characters out!
Director Max Baer Jr. (who would have thought "Jethro" had this kind of talent?) skillfully re-creates an atmosphere of 1950's rural Mississippi.
However, it could have been done much more skillfully.
If this film were skillfully edited down to about 1.5 hours it would be bearable, but some of the lines are pretty stupid, and the Dunaway character is no more than a cardborad cutout villain, with a pointless Brenda Vaccarro running around squawking about nothing.
A truly superb piece of cinema that skillfully manages to avoid the post-modern posturing that condemns many of Van Dormael's contemporaries.
The story (what there is) is skillfully doled out to provide maximum tension, so don't worry why someone working in a police department is not a uniformed cop, all will be revealed by film's end.
Indeed, Putin and Medvedev have worked in perfect tandem with respect to Georgia, cooperating and skillfully performing their different roles, with Putin cast in the lead role of the menacing god of a Russian reckoning, and Medvedev in the supporting role of a possible humanitarian peacemaker.
All that is needed is a persistently strong government commitment to the public interest – and, of course, a skillfully executed reform strategy.
Renzi’s message, while skillfully crafted and optimistic, cannot mask the harsh economic reality in Italy today.
The novel idea, elucidated in Cass Sunstein’s and Richard Thaler’s book Nudge , is that skillfully controlling the way alternatives are presented to us can “nudge” us toward making the choices that our own “better selves” would make.
Some Ukrainian conspiracy theorists – of whom there is no shortage – maintain that Yanukovych was tricked by skillfully prepared misinformation provided by the officials around him.
For President Clinton took a favorable inheritance B the results of the policies of previous governments, as well as global trends and innovations in science and technology B and skillfully fashioned an economic governance well designed for a knowledge based economy.
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