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"Outlander" doesn't fit squarely into any one or two or five genres, but I think it's best described as a creature feature.
Put the blame squarely on the screenplay (adapted from a hit play, God help us!).
Much of the failure of the film must be squarely put on the shoulders of director Boris Szulzinger and his adolescent prowess at showing virtually nothing resembling horror.
While the 1948 version is squarely in the romantic tradition, this film is very realistic.
Sadly, it's neither, and as limply directed by Gary Winick ("13 Going on 30"), it seems targeted squarely to privileged pre-adolescent girls because the two principals reflect the obsessive, childish mindset of that age.
Unlike the first (great) and the fourth (bad) this movie falls squarely in between somewhere.
This was a timely and bold film, also, because it dealt squarely with the oncoming invasion of the heterosexual world by AIDS at a time when most straight folk still believed themselves immune.
Many films include at least one actor guilty of this heinous sin, but when they almost all do so the fault probably lies squarely with the Director.
I lay the blame for most faults squarely on the shoulders of the director, a former designer and art director on some classic horror films who seems to be well out of his area of competence here.
And the blame lies squarely on Lucas' shoulders.
This French movie, written and directed by women (two different ones), falls squarely into the serial killer genre, or so it initially seems.
Aimed squarely at the Playstation generation.
With an unreliable mother, and ailing grandmother, the burden of her family is left squarely on her shoulders, and we see the lengths and sacrifices she has to give up to keep her family together.
In trying to be horrific and funny, the movie stays squarely in the middle of both without really succeeding in either.
He also wrote, directed, and produced it, so all the blame falls squarely on his shoulders.
I dunno if it was the actual writing or if the fault lies squarely with him but the dialogue seemed amateurish and the little tricks of the trade which helped us to understand his character, seemed childish.
A man stuck squarely behind a past he can not regain and a future he can not avoid.
Every now and then, a story emerges from Hollywood which affixes itself squarely on the pages of history.
While domestic issues might be uppermost in voters’ minds, Harvey, Florence, and other extreme weather events have made global warming a local issue and placed it squarely on the ballot.
With education squarely in the spotlight, new trends are gaining momentum, many of them merging with “innovative finance” – a concept much beloved by development policymakers and practitioners in difficult economic times.
Last week, I resolved to speak out in a three-article series, published squarely in the heart of the liberal blogosphere, the Huffington Post.
Moreover, while it remains essential to attach policy conditions to IMF-supported programs, they should be focused squarely on solving a country’s critical problems, so that the conditions will be relevant rather than intrusive.
To make real progress toward reviving their economies, the individual countries need to depend less on quantitative easing by the ECB and focus squarely on structural reforms and fiscal stimulus.
The truth is that the blame belongs squarely on the shoulders of congressional Republicans.
This would place the financial burden squarely on the shoulders of future taxpayers, which would not enhance consumer confidence.
And with Northern Ireland’s Republicans, led by Sinn Fein, demanding a vote to reunite with the south, the very existence of the UK is now squarely on the agenda.
But there are other important initiatives that countries like Britain and Ireland could argue for together:This agenda is squarely focused on how the EU works, not how it is structured.
The regime’s Orwellian strategy is focused squarely on social media and controlling not just what is said, but also how information flows into and around the country.
That will require putting the issue of Syria squarely on the table.
The Petri-Plummer model is squarely rooted in decades of academic trade modeling, which makes a sharp distinction between microeconomic effects (shaping resource allocation across sectors) and macroeconomic effects (related to overall levels of demand and employment).
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