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Very surface, poorly made, badly acted- a major disappointment.
On the surface, it seems like any other movie, but the aliens aren't what anyone is expecting.
The daring, honest, and descriptive story of a young boy, his love for this older girl, and the tribulations of growing up in a small town are merely scratching the surface to what this film has to offer.
But of course, something terrible is just under the polished surface.
Adler was the original "Golden Boy" in Clifford Odets Broadway play (opposite Frances Farmer) here he gives a surface performances.
At the surface level a narrative of lost love, mistaken identity, family tragedy, life/death and tulips.
It has much to recommend it, chiefly: believable and detailed interaction among members of a rather large and unpleasant family, mostly given to self absorption but with moments of genuine compassion and caring that surface unexpectedly.
On the surface , what seems like a shallow film takes us to the deep end of the ocean.
They leave also instructions for the future generations to return the surface of the planet in a steel box that should be kept by the mayors through the generations.
There was plenty of potential to explore and possibly comment upon post-partum depression but this film seems only to have skimmed the surface and shown us many angry and confused people and nothing more.
It brought to the surface all of the sadness, isolation and loneliness I suppressed as a child who wasn't loved for who he was!
The sad thing is, there are hints of something more intelligent beneath the surface, but the surface is piled so high with garbage that it's lost.
Winfrey's shallow adaptation barely skims the surface details of Hurston's novel and does not capture the spirit of the great book it is based on.
No, most people are more complex than that, even if mass media doesn't seem to want to poke much beyond the surface that they present to us.
Besides, it's very moving: background is highly dramatic, though on the surface you find the funniest comedy.
They accuse the (understandably) pacifist survivors of complacency when they refuse to take up once again the weapons that destroyed their world, to wage an unjustified eugenic war of extermination against the deformed (but obviously human) surface dwellers.
On the surface the plot is very simple: good man vs. evil system.
That's because most of the truly frightening monsters in real life wear clothes just like the rest of us, have normal jobs just like the rest of us and are often living right next door, usually appearing to be ordinary family men and women on the surface.
Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killing cannibal, might have not gotten caught when he did if it weren't for that horrific stench of decaying corpses that permeated from his apartment; because on the surface he looked and acted just like a quiet, ordinary guy.
They leave also instructions for the future generations to return to the surface of the planet in a steel box that should be kept by the mayors through the generations.
At the surface, the idea behind Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Eklavya may seem terribly anachronistic.
For example, in an early scene when Adamson returns to Britain and is feted at a private ball, instead of using authentic music to nail the period effect and introduce all the elegant and subtle feelings that run beneath the Victorian surface, Balanescu concocts a drone that is an explicit imitation of locusts.
Despite the surface diversity of programming, the monolithic control of political discourse has changed little since the 1950's.
On the surface, writers, directors, and performers seem free to plan and produce their shows with little or no supervision or monitoring.
Was this a big problem in an otherwise sound institution, or was there an iceberg beneath the surface.
Maintaining the Momentum Toward Universal EducationLONDON – On the surface, mass illiteracy seems like an evil that should be easy to eradicate.
As for liquidity, while on the surface it looks deeper, the joint report on the Flash Crash prepared by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission shows that HFT traders scaled back liquidity sharply, thereby exacerbating the problem.
But if we look beneath the surface, it becomes evident that we are still hovering on the edge of a precipice.
But now, amid mounting concern that Islamist radicalism lies just beneath the surface of the Libyan rebellion, all bets are off.
When stressed, a big surface bifurcates in big chunks, but then the disintegration continues into smaller and smaller fragments.
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