Word: contrivedness
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The music isn’t bad, it just manages to avoid any recognizable musicality. It is riddled with narrative bits and overcrowded lyrics that make it reminiscent of an overblown rock opera à la The Who’s Tommy, but there’s not really enough...
Possibly the most widely anticipated release this summer, producer Jerry Bruckheimer's Pearl Harbor is a $135 million epic story about a certain air raid that plunged our nation into WWII. Like Titanic, it features a love triangle (between the very attractive Kate Beckinsale and hunks Ben Affleck and Josh...
At times, Calle 54 has the feel of a music video sampler-brilliantly performed but somewhat contrived-but in the music's margins, when father and son Bebo and Chucho Valdes play a piano duet or when Chico O'Farril wanders aimlessly in the New York City night, the film...
Alas, the rookies fare less well, standing as they do in the shadow of their vastly more experienced co-stars. Pardue’s name is more interesting than his screen persona; despite some shamelessly contrived moments meant to mature his character, he comes off as a whiny, spoiled brat...
“When We Liked Ike,” is an exhibit that most people can appreciate because it is easy to identify with the subject matter. Although many of the photographs seems absurdly contrived, and although this exhibit serves as a reminder that the face of American society...